Thanks for the welcoming messages!

And yeah, the river path totally wore me out. I don't think I'll do that alone again. Maybe with a friend or two it'd be more fun...but it was a lot more remote than I'd expected, and the longer I rode the more exhausted I became, so the monotony of just endlessly riding when you'd rather just collapse got to me. The seawall trip I want to do again, though. The wheels are already turning in my head for when I'll make that trip again. I haven't done it on my "big" bike yet, so I wonder if the time will be shorter.