I visited Martha's Vineyard (MV) in May 2010 for the first time. My friend had invited me to stay with her at her parent's new home in Boston. We took a bus from NYC and brought our bikes along. That trip turned out to be one of our best biking adventures ever! Call it coincidental or amazing luck, that day we had experienced multitude of fortuity! So much so that it was consistent throughout the day. Talking about flow, we were astounded by all the surrendipities.
We parked our car at Woodholes, MA. From there you can follow the signs and bike along a bike trail that heads toward the ferry to MV. When we got there, we had to bike fast because we were about to miss our ferry. If we missed it, we would need to wait another hour for the next ferry. Thank goodness for us because we barely made it. By the time we got there, all the passenger vehicles were already on the boat. Bikers had also entered the ferry. Good thing I didn't travel alone because we decided to split up the task; I went to purchase the tickets while she blocked the men from closing the gate. That was our first luck of the day!
By the time we arrived to Martha's Vineyard, it was already lunchtime. My friend had been to MV before and recalled of a great brunch place. However, she didn't remember the location of this particular restaurant. Looking at the map, I suggested to her that we bike northwest and simply go with the flow. Within 5 minutes, by chance and random choice of path taken, we passed upon the restaurant that she was looking for! Art Cliff Diner located on 39 Beach Rd at Vineyard Haven had a cozy vintage feel. Brunch was absolutely delicious and reasonably priced. I highly recommend it! At the restaurant, we also met a nice couple who told us about one of the best seafood places at MV located at Menemsha. One of the things that my friend and I wanted to eat were raw oysters. So after hearing of Larsen's Fish Market, we had to check it out. Finding the diner and learning about Larsen's was our second luck of the day!
After brunch and hearing of the seafood shack at Menemsha, I suggested that we bike south to Edgartown and then west along Edgartown West Tisbury Road toward Menemsha. I've biked in Nantucket before and thought the distance would be the same at MV. Boy, my foolhardy assumption was way off! So we left Vineyard Haven and proceeded south along C. Beach Road at Oak Bluffs. The bike ride along this path was beautiful with the Atlantic Ocean on our left. The area felt somewhat like the Jersey Shore except it was filled with Bostonites. After reaching Edgartown and seeing that there was not much to see there, we went west along Edgartown West Tisbury Road. This bike path is absolutely beautiful and peaceful if you like to be surrounded by trees and woods. The path is isolated with an occasional walkers. We had a great time here riding leisurely and gossiping about life and men. Ha! Along this bike trail, you will pass the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest and the airport. After biking for about an hour or so, we realized that we were running out of time because we wanted to make sure we would get back to catch the last ferry. We changed plans and decided to catch a bus to Aquinnah. We checked our watches and again learned that we had to bike fast to catch the next bus. In my mind, I really thought we weren't going to catch that bus. My thighs felt like they were burning with rage! But our luck kept rolling! When we arrived to the bus stop, the bus was there and was just about to leave. How lucky were we? We were so lucky because no other passengers had bikes. Each bus are allowed to only carry three bikes! So if you have four bikers, one person wouldn't be able to get on the bus with the bike. That was our third & fourth luck of the day!
Aquinnah is a town located at the west of MV. After getting of the bus stop, you're a walking distance from a breath taking view of the Atlantic Ocean. Seeing the sunset here would be amazing! But we were on a tight schedule. We wanted to eat oysters! Looking at our maps, we've decided to bike along the Lighthouse Rd -> Lobsterville Rd -> W. Basin Rd. But we did not realize that at the end of the W. Basin Rd was a body of water separating us from reaching Menemsha. For some absurd reason, I subconsciously assumed that there had to be some bridge, right? It just never occurred to the both of us. We were just consumed with the thought of running out of time! But if we didn't get to eat our oysters, we both agreed that this bike path from Aquinnah along the W. Basin Rd was the most beautiful of them all. The path was practically empty and on your left is just miles and miles of views of the ocean. We were like two little girls reminiscing what bliss felt like during childhood; no worries, no stress, pure freedom. You must try this bike route someday!
When we got to the end of the W. Basin Rd., however, we were shocked and literally disappointed. Across from us is Menemsha but separating us is water. Distance was even closer here than it was the Hudson River between Manhattan and NJ. We thought we weren't going catch our ferry if we wanted those oysters that we were fancying for if we had to bike back and around the big Menemsha pond. But just as we turned our bikes around, we saw a vehicle heading toward us. I wanted to ask, perhaps, there was an alternative route that we didn't see on our maps. And I was right! There is a small boat within distance from us that can bring us across the water but the last boat departed in 5 minutes! Guess what we did again?! That's right, we biked our butt off to that location. The boat didn't even look like a boat! It was a flat vessel 
motored by one man. When we got there, he was already ~15ft away drifting off the other way. I yelled for him to come back. Thank goodness he did. There were no one on his vessel and just cost us $5 each. The ride was like 2 minutes! That was our fifth luck of the day!
In the end, we managed to eat our oysters (I highly recommend Larsen's Fish Market), catch our final buses and got back on time for the last ferry. I don't believe I have ever had before such multiple lucks in one day. We definitely had angels watching over us that day. It was definitely one of our most memorable trips ever!
