Touring on a Tandem Bike

Yesterday, Dawn and I went into Provincetown and rented a tandem bike for two hours. They are tricky to get going on, trying to coordinate two people starting from zero at the same time. I took the steering wheel only because Dawn refused. We did a pretty big loop around Provincetown and the whole end of the Cape. Fantastic views of the dunes and of the rough scrub, hills, kettle-ponds, and salt flats. All in all it is a pretty neat place. We investigated a little museum for shipwreck life
saving, and got a quick education regarding the number of ships that have come to grief on this little coast. The numbers are amazing!

Dawn here: The back seat of a tandem bike is a real experience! I thought I'd be able to NOT peddle all the time, however, if the front peddles go, then so do the back, so, I had to do my share on the hills! At one point, I jumped off on a nice steep climb and ran to the top, leaving Laurie to go it alone. I think he was happy with the extra weight off the back! We enjoyed a hearty bowl of Portuguese Kale soup at a local restaurant, packed full of vegetables and sausage. We might go back for
a second bowl today!

With the sending of this note, we will request some weather data to decide if we will take the 4 hour crossing to the Cape Cod Canal. There, we can either investigate a little town called Sandwich, or travel the Canal 2 hours to Onset. The trip down the canal has to be timed with the tides and they're not lined up well on this date. You either have to be at the canal early in the morning (and it's 4 hours from here to get to that spot), or you have to go through after dark on the next tide. You
can see the dilemma.

As we're a little early to this part of the journey, we have extra time to use up. However, we're still glad to have the cold New England, 2-handed overnighters behind us for a while.