Today we meet up with our touring group, and when we went to breakfast at the hotel there were a few couples eating there that would be joining us on the Carolina Tailwinds tour. We sat down with some folks we had ridden the Wine Tour with the previous year and got caught up on things as we ate. After breakfast Susan and I loaded up and biked the few miles to our B&B, The Lords Proprietors' Inn, for the night and to finally get started on our bike vacation with Carolina Tailwinds. Today was an optional 30 miler for folks arriving in time for the 1:00 start, but we decided to take a rest day. As others rode we went exploring downtown. Edenton isn�t too big but I found a library while Susan was able to buy some stuff to be shipped. Visa and UPS are her favorite biking accessories.
The day started with a shuttle that took us over the 32 bridge that we had biked over Sunday. Seeing it from the perspective of an automobile it did not look quite so challenging, but I was still glad to be starting from the other side. Today�s ride was through North Carolina coastal farmland. The day was beautiful and we enjoyed the scenery as we rode with the wind at our backs. We stopped to make a few turtle saves and even managed to do it without crashing into each other. As we rode along we discovered some even stranger animal life as we rounded a curve and saw a pasture with buffalo in it. We stopped and watch as one buffalo lay on the ground while three goats played king on the mountain on his back. As we watched the buffaloes we noticed, in a connecting pasture, three ostriches running up the fence line to come look at us. As we rode off we soon made another discovery. We were making a long sweeping U-turn. Our tailwind was beginning to become a headwind.
