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Up again before sunrise and headed out around 4:45 AM in the black of night but had cool weather. We knew we were not going to have many fuel stops today because of a lot of country roads so we loaded up on water and snacks at 7-11 before boarding the ferry to cross the James River. Ferry ride was in the dark so not many photo opportunities but it was about 20 minutes across and the cool breeze off the water was refreshing. After debarking we were faced with really dark streets through the woods. We only had about 45 minutes of this before the sun came up. The majority of the day was on back roads without bike lanes or shoulders. Country roads+no bike lanes+speeding cars and trucks=NO FUN. We got into Suffolk around 1 PM which was probably our earliest arrival and we attribute that to less hilly roads. The ride was actually pretty boring as it was the same view almost the whole way, Country. What a difference 24 hours makes, once we arrived at our room for the night we realized we went from best (last nights stay) to worst( tonights stay). Let me just put it this way, THE ROOM STINKS! Tina got creative and used the ice bucket liner to wrap the TV remote to prevent us from unknown bacteria. Tomorrow brings us to a new goal, we leave Virginia and cross over into North Carolina…Yay. This will give us flatter terrain for the rest of our trip which will now start skirting the coastline. There are some severe thunderstorm warnings in the area for tonight with winds up to 60 MPH and it continues until the early morning hours. We have decided to get a later start tomorrow to give us some rest and let the storms pass and according to our route we will have a pretty flat ride. Also, temperatures tomorrow are supposed to be cooler with highs around 75 at our destination of Elizabeth City.