North thru Holland

July 24th Blog
The Garmin let us down today. We got a relatively early start for us... 10:30 after a quick breakfast of apple struedal and some sort of ham and cheese croissant. Jordan and I always get different things and them split them. We are really eating relatively little for the amount of calories we are expending. We set our sites on Rozenburg for lunch. That is where Garmin started screwing up. I think it routed us in a semi-circle for no apparent reason. We finally stopped several clicks from Rozenburg for lunch. While eating, there was about a 20 minute downpour. Thank God for small favors! We finally got to Rozenburg where we took a short ferry ride across the small waterway.
The ride out of Rozenburg was just as confusing as the ride in. I don't think my Garmin is clued into the bikeways here. I think the trick is knowing when to ignore it... Kind of like your spouse! We are spending the night in a campground about 15 clicks from The Hague. It is kind of a combination of campground and trailer park. There is a little restaurant here where we ate a greasy dinner. A local camper came up to us an chatted us up. He seemed like a Dutch version of George Gans!
It is about 100 clicks biking to Amsterdam, if we don't get lost. We are going to try to make it there tomorrow.
One beautiful thing we saw today as we crossed over a dike was about 100 wind surfers. These guys were using the rectangular parachutes instead of a sail attached to the surfboard. Some of these guys were really catching some serious air. I will post a picture if it turned out well.
Saturday' July 25th
Set a record for getting up early... 8AM! We were on the road by 9:30 and stopped 5 clicks later fror a great breakfast in Monster, Holland. We bought fresh fruit (cherries, bannan, apple) at a market and croissants at a bakery. We are biking on what is called the North Sea Bikeway. It is a national bike path that goes along the coast. The wind is probably about 30MPH at our backs and we are flying. We will take this north to Haarlem and then go east to Amsterdam. Weather is nice... Around 60 degrees and partly sunny. It has never gotten really hot since our first couple days in England.