We woke up to rain, so we didn't get started until 9 when the rain lightened. We still ended up riding through rain for the first hour, but then it stopped and eventually cleared up. The high was 85 today, which was a really nice change. We rode about 30 miles to Lexington for lunch and then 20 miles to Vesuvius, where we would start our last climb up to Blue Ridge Parkway. The climb started out fairly steep, but leveled out and became an easy ride up to 3200ft. We rode on Blue Ridge Parkway for 25 miles or so, then coasted to a campground to make it 99 miles for the day. It's pretty much flat from here on, and we're excited to get up and ride the last 200 miles. After looking at the maps, we're probably going to try and take a few shortcuts. The route gets pretty windy and avoids some roads that aren't bad to ride on. We'll be careful to try to avoid situations like yesterday with traffic. Two days left. They should be easy, but hopefully rain doesn't slow us down.
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