Do you want to read a story of one very active family...
"Months of planning and physical training had gone into this moment, and now it was time for us to put our plan into action. That plan was for my entire family to spend 15 days bicycle touring through the tidewater regions of North Carolina and Virginia, ending our trip at my parents' home in Fredericksburg, Va. Along the way, we would visit sandy beaches in North Carolina and historic towns in Virginia and at the end we would have a happy reunion with my parents and sisters.
The complicating factor in this plan - and the factor that had my heart racing - was that Kathy and I had never tried bicycle touring with our two children before. In fact, we'd only recently had two children. Our son Daniel was barely 3 years old and our daughter Maggie was just 4 months.
I had been dreaming about and planning this trip before Maggie was even born. But as I looked around at our tandem bicycle; our child bicycle trailer and our heaping piles of food, clothing, diapers, toys, children books and camping gear, my main thought was, "Can we really do this? How are we going to fit all this stuff on our bicycle? And how are we going to pedal that heavy bike for 500 miles?"
Near-panic can be a great motivator. We had already returned our rental car, so there was no turning back. After an hour of cramming supplies into sacks and attaching those sacks to our bike with an abundance of bungee cords, we had finished loading our bicycle. Our children were in the bicycle trailer, surrounded by bags of bagels and fruit.
We pedaled out of town as fast as we could, which was not very fast, and arrived at a national forest campground at dusk. We barely had time to cook our dinner before a thunderstorm broke loose, so we ate in our tiny tent, listening to the thunder and the pouring rain.
As I lay on my back with sweat rolling off my forehead, I thought back through the emotions of the day: the tense excitement of starting a vacation, the teamwork needed to reach our destination, the togetherness of eating a family dinner in our tent, the stress of getting our children to sleep, and the quiet peacefulness of the forest. That’s when I began to realize that our little family adventure was going to be a complete experience – a time of emotional highs and lows. Indeed, the rest our trip was a combination of physical exertion, happy playtimes and frustrating challenges. Put together, it was an incredible experience with many vivid memories."
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