Day 53: the last blog

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Hey y’all - it’s Dustin, sorry the blog is late for the last one… probably because the rest of our day started like this: 
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ieE3DoGWx7KL77fC_EldRsZRa2dhnsi6
Anyway: so we got up and left for our last ride to the beach around 830 - our friend Lenny was a trooper and decided he would ride with us the 44 miles to hammonaset and he did an awesome job! He did so well that we went too fast and how to slow down so we didn’t get there before the welcoming committee. We were getting a bunch of angry texts telling us we were too fast so we stopped for ice cream at Ashley’s which is supposedly the best in CT - it was pretty good - I got peach and there were also frozen pieces of peach in the ice cream which is nice!
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1JkJaK7CVLJrnHgF3UhjxrXqEec7pbGIe
Also - in a desperate attempt to keep the trip going (I don’t know why she would want to do that) Julia decided to run over some glass and get a flat tire! Her first since Washington state, and the groups first since Montana - I think she did it on purpose… 
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1yalc2PfWcv6UuKclRTdK-wBeBSEq13BK
Anyway, after our entourage finally showed up at the beach we headed on down and we’re met with all our friends and family with signs and cheers
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ip445i2YaznRXF-zpT2lt9fukC8IQCKz
Here are some of the signs ^^^

So we went down the beach and dunked our front tires in the ocean to finally conclude our trip after 7 weeks and one day and it felt so good to be done:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1PbGIdiRcXdCFMbZI5pL2-Q6eKDZr4InS

After that the celebration started with a champagne shower and I nice restful day at the beach with our friends - followed by a nice seafood lunch - and a small party that night. It’s bittersweet that the trip is finally over, but we had a lot of fun and will remember it forever. We want to thank all the friends, family, donors, and strangers for everything they did to support us this trip - we only could do it because of y’all! Anyway - thanks for reading the blog I hope you found it interesting! See y’all later!

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  1. JimJuly 28, 2022 at 6:30 AM

    Thanks for doing this for the camp and keeping up the tradition here at UConn.

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