Heading Home

June 13, 2012

Day 12

Heading home today and should arrive by 3 or 4pm. Left Roanoke Rapids by way of route 58 and then 168 avoiding major highways as much as possible. We passed lumber mills and pulp mills with the smell of cut wood heavy in the air; I was surprised to see whole sections of woods cleared of every standing tree because pulp mills can use the little trees that are no good for making boards. We shared the small back road with log trucks carrying cut logs to these mills. Later we would pass new growth timber that will probably be ready to harvest in 20 years. We passed field after field of cotton and even a cotton gin in one of the small cross-roads of a town. The sun was bright and the air warm just perfect for riding. We finally reach route 64 and fight our way through the traffic to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel and once we cross that body of water we know we are almost home. We traveled 295 miles today and 2320 miles total for this trip.