At 8:05 pm on May 12, 2016, I officially began my bicycle trip across the country when I wetted my wheels (and my feet) in the Atlantic ocean. I don't start in earnest until Monday and have a few things to take care of before then, but the timing worked out for me to go to the ocean tonight. It will make things easier on Monday when I don't have to bike into and out of Boston at the beginning of the day. This picture was taken by Skip, a really nice guy that I met when I was walking down the rocky beach to the water. We talked a bit about my trip, and he told me about taking a motorcycle in a loop around the country for his honeymoon. I've started contacting people on warmshowers.org to stay with for my first week of biking, and I have things pretty well planned out all the way to Ithaca. Olin college graduation is on Sunday, and I'm going tree climbing with some friends on Saturday to retrieve a weather balloon, so it should be a fun weekend.