We started the day by leaving our hotel in Reading and eating breakfast in front of a garage (with a lovely patch of weeds in front of it). We quickly got on the bike trails and thought it was going to be an easy 40-mile ride on a beautiful trail with the canal on one side and the English countryside on the other, but were dead wrong. Around mile 15, the cute baby swans and unique houseboats didn't seem so charming as the trail became bumpy and rocky and I cringed each time my bike hit a large bump. Finally we got off the trail and headed on a road toward our campground. The view was amazing but the path was hell for all of us. There were massive hills and traffic and most of us had to walk up the biggest hills but Aimee and David never quit and biked all the way. When we got to the camp, realized that we didn't have any oil so we had to use mango juice to cook our vegetables. Although the methods were unconventional, the burritos still turned it pretty cool.
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