Update 4/23
Day #62
Today: Linthicum, MD, to Bel Air, MD (38 miles)
Total miles: 3390
Tomorrow (plan): Kennett Square, PA
We had a good breakfast, Barb went off on her way to a school conference, and Butch gave us some pointers about getting through Baltimore. When we departed at 9:30 AM, it was pretty good cycling weather: clear and cool, but with enough wind to be annoying. After listening to a strange noise coming from the tandem for a few miles, we pulled over and I discovered I had made a truly bone-head mistake after cleaning and lubricating the chain last night. In the dim light and the rush to get in for dinner, I had not threaded it properly. This meant that I had to disconnect a link, re thread the chain properly, and reconnect the link. This took longer than I had anticipated, but everything worked out well. We negotiated our way right through the middle of Baltimore without any problems and arrived at the beautiful new home of my classmate Ed Stauch and his wife, Lee, at about 3:30 PM. We were stationed together at the University of Delaware back in the early 60s while Ed and I were doing graduate work. After talking about old times and washing our biking clothes, we got cleaned up and went out to a local Italian restaurant for a delicious dinner. Then it was back to find that their beagle, Sam, had been lured upstairs by the smell of some energy bars in a bag I had forgotten to close. The bars had a few chocolate chips in them, but, thankfully, they were not solid chocolate, since a substantial amount of chocolate can be fatal to a dog. Sam appeared to be no worse for the episode, so we went to bed, looking forward to entering Pennsylvania tomorrow.