Day ): We rode our bikes 70 miles in the wind.
Day !): We rode our bikes 70 miles. BUT, something actually happened on this day! I was waiting at this Marathon gas station for Stumbles when this guy who works there came up to me and started asking me bike questions. Like where you going, how far, how long, yada yada yada. Well once he finds out I'm actually going a distance he launches into this crazy story.
A year and half ago he was riding his bike from Michigan to Virginia for the ginseng season or something random like that. He stopped at this very same Marathon and the owner, Bo, who has done some bike tours himself, offered to let him camp out back. After a couple days Bo offered him a job stacking wood and so he stayed for a month to make some money before continuing south. Well he heads off south and when the ginseng season is over he calls up Bo to see if there's any more wood that needs stacking. Bo offers him a full time job and, batta bing, batta boom, he has an awesome job working for the coolest gas station owner ever.
Stumbles comes up to the gas station and we go in together to meet Bo. Bo is the nicest old man ever, he has done a few long bike tours himself. He told us anyone who bikes that long can have anything they want in his store. He full on made breakfast for us and offered us any drink he had. He told us all about his tours and showed us the scrap book he'd made of it (because it was way back in the day). It was amazing talking to this random fellow biker! And then they give us t-shirts from the gas station too! As well as a special surprise ;). It was exactly what we needed at the time. A little crazy kindness from a stranger. He sent us off telling us that if we ever felt like quitting we should call him and he would give us hell for it. The grandest of guys, I thank them both for everything!
Day !!: It's been like 10 days and I've gained like 15 pounds (at least). I thought I was supposed to get skinny this trip?!! Me and Stumbles have stopped yelling 'summer of skinny' and started on the 'summer of fat' yelling. It's pretty hilarious actually. Probably because my new favourite food is a salad with fries dumped on it.
I swear there is a salad under that
We're about midway through Indiana and had an awesomely easy and short day of 50 miles down this bike trail. It's the first place we've encountered any other cyclist since beginning this thing. Anyways, all's good over here and sorry the updates are so uneventfully short!
Be happy!
Beacon
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