Day 2

Today 60 miles
Trip total 151

First day jitters have given way to a calming routine that is lovely and wonderful and goes something like this: pedal, pedal, pedal...

Also, in lessons learned bike trails are our friends. We left Wilamantic, CT headed for New Haven mainly on the Air Line Bike Trail, and mostly down hill the whole way. Pretty freakin sweet! 

Nik adds: The Airline Trail was an old railroad right of way to connect New York and Boston, "as if by a line drawn from the air". It was much more direct than the current line through Providence but that area has lots of hills so the grading and the bends it still had to take led the line to fall into disuse.  Now it makes a lovely bike trail. Like Molly said, bike trails arw our friends. 

We had lunch with Nik's old swing dancing partner from Rice, Chandra, at this awesome place called Eli Cannon's where I tried aligator for the first time. It tasted sort of like a mix of fish and chicken, but it was fried and I was hungry so it was good. Good beer list, too. 

We had to hurry from there because of an impending storm, but we made it to Nick and Lauren's before the rain which was fortunate. Nick is this master chef and made is some incredible salmon and fancy greens. Now sleep.

Nik, Me, Chandra