I guess the riders we saw leaving at 3:30 pm (along with us leaving for home from our boat) just stayed longer to see more of New Bern or some such - I was thinking they must have ridden at least the metric to be in town so late in the day. Sorry that Sunday was a bust - I wouldn't have ridden either! Nothing worse than torrential rains and high wind. We didn't have any torrential rains just east in Oriental at all. The heaviest rains were at about 5 am. After we got up, it only sprinkled on and off until 3 pm. We did hit some heavier rain driving back through New Bern, and the sky was BLACK.

Congrats on your 80 mile day -- that's nothing to sneeze at!

Emily