Day 15: Ocracoke, NC to Jacksonville, NC, 86 miles

Remember the old saying: " Red sky at night cyclist's delight, red sky in morning cyclist take warning"?

This was the sky last night and today turned out nearly perfect-tail wind, good roads, temperature in the 70's, didn't get lost, no flats.

We boarded the ferry at 7:00am and arrived at Cedar Island about ten. Got on the bikes and averaged 20mph for the first hour. That's what a good tail wind will do for you. Stopped at a Dairy Queen for some fuel about 1:00 and arrived at the motel about 3:00. Butta bing, butta boom. Nothing to it.

Went to the Golden Coral for dinner. It's very different from the last one I went to maybe 25 years ago. It's really hard to describe. Kind of a feeding frenzy. They have a huge assortment of things to eat. It's an OK place to eat if you need to make up for the 4000 calories or so that you've burned cycling. If not you should avoid it unless you're looking for a side show. Michel, I think, experienced somewhat of a culture shock. There were a lot of very large people who really shouldn't have been eating there. He actually heard one very large lady say to her friend as they were loading their plates " If I eat any more I may go into a diabetic coma". True story.

Tomorrow it's 109 miles to Little River, SC. Hope that the wind is still out of the north.