Michael Wilson and his daughter, Ava, do a lot of things together, but neither imagined a bicycle ride from their home in the suburbs of Philadelphia to their happy place: Long Beach Island. That’s until dear old Dad made an offhanded comment and Ava held him to it.  

“Even up to the last day, I kept asking her if she wanted to do this,” Wilson recalled Monday morning just a day after he and Ava completed the 66-mile ride to LBI in roughly six hours on Sunday, July 19. “She’s like ‘we are doing it.’” 

And they did, even though it meant rising at 2 a.m. so they could hit the road by 3 to beat the heat and, yes, the…