Day 6- Can this be happening???!!!

 Day 6, this is the longest ride I had ever been on!. Things had been going so well. The state of North Carolina started out so mountainous and had flattened out so much since then. If you watch all these videos you will hear me say "day 5" over and over again. After riding so long you forget days and times...

 Zoom in on that last picture. That is a HUGE spider which greeted us as I was being dropped off.

It is never ideal to be on a highway this huge. With my map leading me for .3 miles on this ride, 1.8 miles on that rode and .63 miles on the other road I would never really know what I was getting myself into! Fortunately this wasn't the case very often and this larger rode was not one I was on very long either.

Much to my surprise you can race your horse at many places in North Carolina. I learned something.

Kind of a blurry picture but that is what encouragement looked like for me over the ride. A black mini-van full of cheering people. It is amazing how far encouraging words can push someone.

Trying to balance the right food and drink is very difficult on a tour and I have much to learn. Once you are out in the heat it is so difficult to drink water and eat. NUUN energy is amazing and when it has a bit of caffeine in it it is all the better.

Toward the end of the day with the end in sight we were able to get the boys out on their bikes. They had been wanting to ride for the Dominican the whole time but none of the roads were conducive to making this happen.

It was a great experience seeing and hearing their excitement throughout the trip. I hope they are able to join us on the rides in the coming years.

Below is one of my favorite videos.

You can see in the last map that my GPS glitched out but I believe that the stats are accurate.
102.3 miles... a very good day.