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| The road into Lumberton just one month ago. |
Since the ride into Lumberton was only 37 nearly flat miles, we laid in bed until 8 and ate a leisurely breakfast. The weather was beautiful - warmer than it has been in a couple weeks and sunny. The road seemed to fly by. We averaged 13mph- quite fast for us. We generally are thrilled to get an 11mph average.
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| Clean up underway. |
We are riding into the areas most effected by Hurricane Mathew. In fact, a gentleman we met while having lunch, said Lumberton was one of the hardest hit cities in North Carolina. His business was under 10 feet of water; he lost a lot of his equipment and had to relocate.
We passed lots of roads under repair and many downed trees, most fields and yards looked like water swept through them, and trash is still littering the roadside, but other than that, the area looked surprisingly unscathed. Tomorrow we go through downtown Lumberton and there may be more damage there.
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| Before and after shots of the Cape Fear River. |
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| Downed trees littered the sides of the road. |
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Google gave us a dirt road to add a
little variety to the trip.
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| Cape Fear River looking peaceful. |
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