We had a nice ride today. It has been cloudy all day, but for the most part, we were able to ride in the dry. I do say for the most part. I was riding with Bill and we were about 10 miles from our destination and we could see that it was about to rain so we put the rain covers on the bags and got ourselves ready. Well, I am telling you it started to rain. It was just coming down in sheets and we couldn't see where we were going and worried that the vehicles behind us couldn't see us so we just pulled into a driveway to wait things out. There was a gate on the driveway so we just stood there in the rain until things got better. It was an hour of waiting and it just poured. I kind of thought someone might stop to see if we needed help, but no one stopped. It finally quit and as we rode there were streets with six or so inches of water flowing.
All in all it was a good day. We are in Carolina Beach, NC. We.rode 70 miles today and spent some time touring the city of Wilmington. It is an old city that was quite important in civil war days. As we were riding through town, there was a sign to the USS North Carolina and I thought I would like to tour the ship so we rode out to it. It really was pretty cool. We were able to look in the gun turrets, engine rooms, clear down in the ship. The sixteen inch guns were amazing. I really enjoyed it.
Because of the storm, we are again in a hotel. We have spent about 20 days in hotels on this trip. More days than we have camped. We were only supposed to have 10 days in hotels on the entire trip. I guess that is the bright side of all the rain.
I did get my 5th flat today. I think I am leading the pack in the number of flats. I pulled out a roofing nail out of the tire that went straight into the tire. I can't understand how that nail went straight in. I am getting good at fixing the tires.
I tried to take picture of the rain, but I don't know if of will do the storm justice.
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