2016 TGO Challenge Day 13
North Water Bridge to Montrose (8.25 miles)
Total Trip Miles:172.75
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
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| Day 13 |
The final day had finally arrived. I woke up with excitement for the end but also a sadness that this journey would soon be over. I made sure to get a good picture of Kenny and Ava as I realized we'd never actually taken a good shot even though we'd been talking about it since day 3, I believe.
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| Me on the final day |
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| Kenny and Ava |
We walked through more farmland along the B roads to get to the coast. Honestly, it wasn't very exciting, and the thing that kept us going on our aching feet was the finish line.
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| I like the contrast of the bright yellow and gray skies |
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| Our first view of Montrose |
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| All of us at the sign heading into town |
Once we got into Montrose, we took a wrong turn and headed way into town and then had to head back north and cross a golf course to get to the beach.
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| The North Sea!! |
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| The wind was so strong that after 2 minutes our writing was already fading away |
After taking some pictures we quickly got out of the freezing wind coming off the North Sea. We headed off to find the Park Hotel, where our crossing would officially be over when we signed out.
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| The true finish line! |
We received a warm welcome from the challengers in the control center room of the hotel. We all signed out and received our bag of loot. We hung out for a bit eating some snacks and chatting with the other challengers.
Kenny and Ava had a room booked into the hotel (they were doing the Wednesday night dinner and then heading home the next morning). After they got showered in their room Kenny went to urgent care (actually called something else over there, but I don't remember what they called it) where he had a giant piece of skin cut off from his heel and got his wound professionally dressed. Just as I was about to head out of the hotel to head over to the campground I heard that one room had become available. Another challenger, Phil, happened to be sitting in the lobby and we decided to splurge a bit and split the room for the night.
I showered, got some dinner and then watched TV until I passed out. The perfect end to a challenge, I think.
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