Pretty much every Memorial Day weekend I try to use the break to whip my sorry butt into some kind of shape even if I haven't been riding all that much by doing a little 3 or 4 day tour.

The weather in New England could not have been more cooperative. Threw some gear in a rack pack and a front bag and managed to roll out of town at 3pm on Friday for a quick 45 miles to Southeastern Mass to my sisters. A tailwind and crystal clear skies and about 65 degrees made for the perfect ride. Stayed overnight there and Saturday morning my brother-in-law, a hardcore mountain biker and sometimes roadie, and I set out for a gorgeous 70 mile meandering loop to Bourne, MA at the bottom of Cape Cod. Extraordinarily beautiful riding through small towns and farms.

Went for the lobster dinner on the Cape and up early on Sunday for the pancake breakfast at a local eatery and up the canal path and continued on for a phenomenal 80 miles up the Cape to Provincetown. Caught the 3 pm fast ferry back to Boston. Rode home to Newton, got presentable and rode to New Ginza in Watertown for a sushi feast. Looped around the neighborhood to round out to an even 100.

This morning up and out to The Town Diner for another big breakfast and then a grueling 45 miles into a fierce headwind back to my bro-in-laws in Southeastern MA. Had the prerequisite Memorial Day burger on the barbie and I headed back with the most phenomenal tailwind ever. 45 miles home in a total of 2:15 with a stop for a Gatorade and a Chunky. The wind was directly behind me and it was steady at around 20 mph with gusts easily to 30. It's a ride with rolling hills and twists and turns and it felt like I was on a motorcycle!

Obviously- it's all about the food.

300 miles of perfect riding in a nice little weekend. Here's a pic of us rolling down a country lane in Rehoboth MA

Just outside of NY, we had the same great weather. Rode every day with no hassles. On Saturday my 10 year old told me he wanted to go on a "big" ride. His previous longest was 6 miles and he wanted to go for 10 miles. Anyway, didn't get a great workout (spinning my lowest gear doing one leg drills) but WE had a blast and he was psyched to take on some "really killer hills".

Sounds like a lot of you put families first, cycling second from canoeing, to in-laws and burgers to a 10 year old's PR. Congratulations!

a month or so ago, I did a 24 hour ride from Provincetown to Westfield, MA that included riding the Cape Cod rail trail from end to end 'twas a lot of fun, but I regret doing that segment at 9 in the evening, when it was really too dark to enjoy any of the scenery.

Where in Rehoboth was that country lane? Dawn found us going through most of the southern parts of Rehoboth on our way to Providence (Center to Williams to Cedar) and we found that are to be rather pretty as well; definitely great touring terrain.

Some nice scenery and cycling roads in the picture. Looks like hampshire in the UK

It's actually a private road we used as a cut through (so I'd best not advertise it on line.) The ride from Rehoboth to the Cape through Dighton, Freetown, Rochester etc is full of little gems of roads though. I used to ride this area eons ago with the early Narragansett Bay Wheelmen and we used it for race training, too. No leash laws in Rehoboth so plenty of unanticipated sprints!