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day 10: be my baby 🐣
Learning Festival Day in Tazewell, VA yo yo YO!!! sarah “schmitty” schmitt is BACK again, this time from the learning festival perspective! 🧪 for our 2nd learning festival, we are near the northern virginia border in the lovely town of tazewell, specifically the main street united methodist church! since i was the driver yesterday, and
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Day 9: forever long miles and the perfect refuel spot
Radford, VA to Tazewell, VA – 68.24 mi, 4,380 ft It’s Ramona again and welcome to day 9. The day started with some awesome power oatmeal that Sharon made for us. It had all kinds of amazing nutritious additions, so we we’re well equipped to start the day. I left Sharon’s and Keith’s home with
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Day 8: A Day in the Life (Driver Edition)
Roanoke, VA to Radford, VA – 52.39 mi, 4,265 ft The stars have aligned. We have 8 bloggers but only 7 drivers (uncommon Ramona L), so today is one of the rare days when the driver is in charge of blogging! I thought this would be a good opportunity to peel back the curtain and
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Day 7: The Lone Star Adapts
Lexington, VA to Roanoke, VA – 59.58 mi, 4,160 ft I woke up to the smell of pancakes courtesy of Dirk and Chrissy van Assendelft. The breakfast I had at their place in Lexington was some of the best I ever had. After breakfast, the team scattered to pack. As I collected my clean laundry,
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Day 6: stab your friends…
Afton, VA to Lexington, VA – 47.02 mi, 4,354 ft Today was just one of those days. I woke up at 1:55 am to pee, and never quite fell back asleep. Tian, our resident snorer, unknowingly kept me awake all night. I popped in my airpods and drifted in and out of consciousness for the
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Day 5: Can we take five?
Rest day in Afton, VA The first four days of this trip have been nothing but hectic. Day 1 had me running a bottle rocket workshop seven times followed by a terrifying time being the driver in DC (how is it worse than Manhattan??). Day 2 had me cycling on gravel roads through a severe
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Day 4: thunderstruck⚡️
Big Meadows Campground, VA to Afton, VA – 42.74 mi, 3,045 ft “There’s no way I’m biking down Skyline Drive this morning,” I told Ruth as the pitter patter of rain woke us up from our short, wet night of sleep. Yesterday, we completed the long ascent up Skyline Drive and I had spent hours
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Day 3: BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, SHENENDOAH RIVERRRR
Linden, VA to Big Meadows Campground, VA – 55.75 mi, 6,555ft Howdy y’all, Ishaq here. Today we had quite the late start but we’re treated to a quality pre-ride meal by our wonderful hosts, Jen, Tim, and their adorable baby Wayne (his cuteness fed our spirits with the motivation to conquer the day’s challenge). It
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day 2: taking off the training wheels (and lessons learned along the way) 🚴🏼♀️
Washington, D.C. to Linden, VA – 82.06 mi, 5,361 ft hello!!! this is sarah with our 1st biking day blog!!! 🚲 after spending our first night all together at our lovely airbnb in falls church, virginia, we got up at a timely 5am (or around there, it’s been a few days, behind on blogs…i think
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OFFICIALLY DAY 1 (crazy ik, we’re in natural numbers now)
Wow, the past days have been crazy! I was so busy making it through them that this blog has been delayed… for 4 days. Sorry about that! But let’s get into it! I am honoured to declare that as of this day, the Spokes 2025 trip has OFFICIALLY STARTED! Yesterday all eight of us Spokies
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