Day 2: Fun

Begin:       ~7:30  Daddy Rabbits
End:          ~ 3 pm Elizabeth Brown Memorial Park (Wytheville, VA)

Miles:        59 miles

Woke up at 6 am and found out Chris had a flat.

It gave me a few more minutes to wake myself up and psych myself up for the ride.

We planned for today to be short (< 60 miles) and rode it steady at a moderate pace.

Had several encounters with Mad Max and his friends (our name for leashless dogs).

It appears that 4 out of 5 dog owners don't believe in chaining their dogs.

Luckily none have caught us.

The ride was not that bad.  

Lots of uphill balanced with some good downhill  legs.

It felt like someone built the roads so that everyone passing through could bitch  about the climbs.

Had a great lunch in Fort Chiswell.

3 ham sandwiches for $3.50.  Yeah!

Met some Jesus freak on a bike loaded for bear.

90 lbs consisting of homemade equipment and filled to capacity.

He even had a styrofoam ice chest on the back!

He had been wandering the roads from Tenn through KY up into Ohio then back down towards NC.

He said that the Lord is directing him.

The man did live on Faith; He'd been broke for 6 weeks and was living on handouts.

We rolled into Wytheville in the early afternoon with some dark clouds overhead.

Had a shower, put our bikes in the Comm Center Office and cruised the town.

Everything is closed on Sundays.

Everything but the gas stations and grocery stores.

Got caught in a big rain storm outside of the store and waited for 30 min until it let up only to have it start up again.

Sat under someones porch and drank a 1/2 gallon of OJ and munched on peanuts.

We finally sprinted to the Comm Center and have been hanging out here for about 2 hrs.

The festival doesn't end until 10 pm and there is an 80% chance of rain.

Fun, fun.