This morning we woke to the sounds of children and barnyard animals at Coggeeshall farm. It’s a beautiful place to be, especially if you aren’t doing the farm work! Because we were up past 2am Friday night, the Tour de Dance didn’t get on the road until after noon today. We started off as a five person caravan including two of our favorite musicians who bike with us to thier gig. I’ve seen many different things transported by bike but today I add harp to that list.

Harp by bicycle!

After leaving the musicians we wound about 53 miles up the bike path to Providence and through residential roads to the AMC campground at the Blue Hills. Our only stop was for water at a store that also offered “exclusive imitation jewelery”

Thus, we were both hungry and behind schedule when we rolled up to the camp office. We were not sure how we were going to find dinner and we’re not looking forward to the mile dirt road out of camp to find a restaurant. In a way that only happens on bike trips, the camp manager lead us to a table of  grilled food and watermelon that were all dinner leftovers and offered us to take what we wanted before it would be discarded. So in one swift change of course we had a ready made dinner at no cost and made up for a good portion of the lost time in our day!