Portugal: Biking Day 5, Obidos to Peniche Peninsula

 Portugal: Biking Day 5

Obidos to Peniche, 30 miles

We woke up in our cute medieval town and headed toward the coast, our final stop.

This was our latest start, because we could see the forecast showing a rainy morning. We hung out aroudn the hotel until almost 9:30/10:00am, and our Canadian friends were considering renting a van and throwing their bikes in and having a nice dry 30 mile drive to the coast :) But we all ended up waiting out the rain (a little), and making our way there on our bikes one last time.

This was a pretty wet day, and lots of dirt trail riding, but it was so fun. This felt like the victory lap? I was just so happy knowing we'd done our rides and we were making our way to the coast for our final stop. The little tiled houses in the middle of farms and around lakes were so cute. There were fishermen out in little boats. The ride was just so pleasant.

We made it to the coast and Facetimed the boys. When we went out to grab our last dinner we chatted with Bill and Nancy on our way out, and they ended up joining us to go get some gyros. That was a fun last dinner, getting to know them a little more before they headed to Morocco for some more travel and we headed home to our little boys.

I really loved this trip. Planning to see new places breathes life into me. I looked forward to it for so long and I know I'll get miles and miles of happiness out of just remembering it. Traveling Maddie met traveling Michael, so being just that together again for a few days really makes my soul happy.

We'd love to go back to Portugal (I was feeling sad we never made it up to Porto, but I don't regret our fun bike days), and maybe we will someday when we eventually make it to see Michael's mission in Spain. But if not, we'll always remember it was such a friendly and beautiful place with fascinating history, and some mildly intense seafood. :) 

The last biking breakfast.
These will be missed.

Ready to ride that last day -- we're expecting rain. 
It will be great :)

Lots of our day looked like this;
Dirt trails, rainy conditions.
It honestly just felt pretty great though, knowing we were just slowly making our way to our finish line and that it was a flatter and shorter ride than the day before.

We went around a whole lake and it was really pretty.
We could see on our map that we could just skip it if we wanted to.
But how could we do that??
It's so funny because we'd honestly never opt in to a rainy ride through Fort Collins,
but of course we'd do that in Portugal. We came for this!

So many beginning surfers out there. The waves would pick up here and there and they were fun to watch.

I'm going to miss this little thing.
I worry about a million different things at home and here I just worry about this little GPS,
and finding a yummy snack.