We finally finished a whole week on the road. Other than the pain the last two day's have been pretty uneventful, but here's a little run down anyways.
Day 6
On our 6th day we left our wonderful room at the embassy sweets to head to Demopolis, AL. Due to our fun night in Montgomery we didn't get on the road until after 11 and that made it a really long day. We were also still hurting from the night before which didn't help at all. We went on a country road for almost an hour that ended up having a bridge out so we had to turn around and find a new way. That brought our total mileage for the day up to about 103 miles and we spent a total of 7hours 42minutes on the bikes. We ended up sprinting for about the last hour to race daylight and make it to the hotel before dark. Unfortunately we had to ride in the dark for a bit but we made it alright and learned we need to get on the road early. And on a side note, never go to Uniontown, AL. It makes downtown Detroit look like a peaceful suburb. We were in and out of there very quickly.
Day 7
Chris really didn't like today. I think it was the first time he stopped talking the entire trip. It was a short day though, only 82 miles in just over 6 hours riding time. We got to the hotel by 5 and plan to get to bed really early tonight. We are still averaging over 13 mph and making good time. Our butts just keep getting worse...we really hope that this pain goes away before California. Chris has also invented two games to keep himself amused. He counts armadillo roadkill (which there is a lot of, they must be terrible at avoiding cars) and he moo's at all the cows we pass to see how many of them he can get to look at us. I think the heat may be starting to get to him.
Well tomorrow we are headed for Vicksburg, MS and it should be a little over a hundred miles so we have a long day ahead of us. Thanks for reading and we'll talk to you all again soon.
Don & Chris
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- Riding bikes and enjoying life one day at a time with my beautiful wife.
5 comments:
Hey Mates
Just to let you know, the Aussies here are fascinated with your adventure, although I had to explain what an armadillo was. Keep up the good work!
Cheers
Gerriann & John
Hi Guys,
You are seeing parts of the country I will never see. It sounds like that is good and bad. I am glad you are leaving earlier, riding in the dark in the middle of no where sounds scarey to me.
Do the cows answer Chris?
Love you,
Mom
keep pedaling chris
have a great time both of you fuzzy wants you to take good care of all the animals
it's hilarious that i can tell that chris wrote the 'day 6' blog and that don wrote the 'day 7' blog. SWEETS chris? c'mon.
hehehe just kidding i love you. but seriously though it's 'suites'
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