Listening to: Bach
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| Classic ship in Annapolis harbor |
Writing this post, I'm sat on a college campus in blistering sunshine and a not too shabby 27 degC. Left Washington DC around 7 this morning on the first day of actual travelling. Either the saddle or me arse need to be broken in because it was agony. But, 1 day travelling down, 2 State capitals done: Washington DC and Annapolis MD. Straight forward route along some pretty major roads, hugging the edge or making use of the extensive hard shoulder all the way. For anyone repeating the journey, just head East out of DC and when you get to a small coastal town called Mayo, you've gone too far. Lovely place though.
There are several patterns along the way which seem fairly typical for America. Coming out of DC there were several 7Elevens, then there were garages everywhere, then you get to your idyllic residential communities (have a look at the
theme from Weeds if you need a better idea of what I'm on about). I also saw a massive evangelic cathedral at a place called Camelot, and hopefully not an omen, a flock of vultures picking on a deer. Saw me first possum too.
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| Home for the evening |
Made it into Annapolis around half 11. Annapolis is a small harbor town and home to the US Naval Academy. The visitors center was incredibly helpful and all jumped into action to try and help me find somewhere hostel cheap to stay. Mentioned couchsurfing and they pointed me towards the college campus and told me just to ask some people. Went down, and saw a group of guys playing croquet. No luck with them, but they pointed us up to the quad where I met Peter who had a spare couch, and even a spare bed. Destination reached by half 11, bed found by 12. Couldn't have asked for better.
Some wisdom for today from Peter...
A bagel is nothing if it's not made with danger.
:)
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