Tuesday, July 12, 2011

We made it!

We made it! wooo. can't believe it is over and i had such great people to journey with and see the US with.

Thanks for following me can't wait to see all my friends and fam in the rest of my journeys this summer!

one more day... wow. can't believe we aree almost there. We are staying stone mountain state park about 57 miles from winston salem...

Recap...applachian mountains were hard. We took the creeper trail from damacus to whitetop gap.

The night before stayed at a bike hostel and met some people from alaska! crazy!

This trip has been an eye opening experience can't wait to to tell everyone more details when i see you all!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Hanging out at the settlement school in our chairs in hindman.

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Welcome to virginia!

1000 miles

Friday, July 8, 2011

1000 miles the big hills and virginia!

1000 miles and the big hills. We crossed one of the steepest sections of the mountains today (according to the map). We pedaled through little valleys and it was really nice.

We kept leap frogging wendy and sam(a couple from PA we have been traveling near). After an afternoon deluge we decided that the mom's idea to stay at the breaks motel was great.

We sat out some storms at the local barbeque pit yum and are now sitting at the laundromat. We are in virginia now!

Not good enough service to post pictures....will update tomorrow!

Free Camping...woo!

Made it to hindman KY. There were a few really long steep climbs at the beginning of the day today, but they were really beautiful.

We then rode on this really awful big road with no shade. The last 12 miles were mostly shaded and down hill.

We had heard the guy in the historic society would let you camp in his yard...but also heard he was crazy! so the mom found the best freee spot at the settlement school. We are hanging out in the shade under a huge tree ...it eveb protected us from the afternoon rainfall. Tomorrow we will ride out of KY into virginia! wooo breaks interstate park.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mountains...day 1

i survived the first day of the hills. Despite all my nervousness today we had a beautiful 70 mile ride to buckhorn KY. It is hard to believe it is almost over.

I am about to hit my 1000 miles mark as katy nears in on almost 4000. I feel kinda lame, but ot has still been awesome....

I took pictures on the real camera but forgot the phone ones for the blog. sorry!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

ahhh mountains!

Arrived in Berea after a crazy night of 4th of July camping. Went for a swim, showered, ate an awesome lunch at this little cafe, explored the town...cute, and hit up walmart. Endured a small rain storm sitting in the car and did laundry.

A successful day....tomorrow..the appalachians!

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Katy doing the disco in the pavillion!

Katy with the centerpiece on her head...happy 4th!

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Catching up part 1.

Oh man! well it has been a rough couple of days for cellphone service. On the 3rd we had a quick ride to bardstown. Where we stayed at the days in, did laundry, ate at mammy's place (yum), and got ice cream.

The fourth of july was not so patriotic for us. We had dreams of riding through parades and attending barbeque, but all failed. Instead we fixed dollar store flags to our bicycles and pedaled to a campground 4 miles past burgin, KY.

The mom had our tents all set up. We showered and headed for the restuarant. That is where we discovered berry fried pie. sooooooo delicious.

We played cribbage and hung out under the pavillon in the shade. Then headed for bed. As soon as it got dark the people next to the campground were setting off fireworks in their backyard. The mom was concerned about the sparks falling on our tent and I could not sleep because the dog was barking for at least an hour. We marched to the front, the mom demanded we move our tents. We moved our tent & slept.

Monday, July 4, 2011

can't write a long blog...bad cell service. Near harrodsburg or ville KY. happy 4th! will post epic photos tomorrow.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Old picture forgot to post...fully loaded day 1 with panniers.

POOL!

Apparently there was a lot of activity last night after I entered my benedryl coma. There was blaring johnny cash and lots of goofing around in the other tent which was only and ear shot away in case the creatures of the night came for me.

I woke up after a glorious night sleep...katy and the mom..not so much. As katy and I started pedaling toward hodgedenville we found the terrian was perfect for quick pedaling. We quickly passed many cyclists a total of 11 for the day and heard from the mom that there was a pool next to where we camping. I immediately jumped on the front of the train and pedaled as quickly as you can on a touring bike with no functional big ring toward the POOL. randomly throughout the ride we would remember the pool and scrream POOL and pedal faster. We arrived a quick 57 miles later at a nice city park.

We hung out in the pool, found some showers and I learned to play cribbage and won two games woo. Tomorrow a quick ride to bardstown. We got american flags!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Kentucky fried chicken...crazy dogs.

After our amazing stay at the bike hostel. We took off for an anticipated 80 miles to the rough river state park. The mom took off to try and fight the fourth of july campers for a spot and do some shopping for us and we pedaled onward.

The mom arrived to a full campground and explained to the old man in the booth our situation. Determined to help us out the man made us a nice spot right near the entrance to the park.

It was a rather uneventful day minus two dog attacks. One took a pretty severe nip towards my heel and the other katy and I nearly ran over on our bikes.

As katy and i were sitting in these awesome chairs in front of the grocery store....Camping chairs. We immediately called the mom and she picked us up some camp chairs....AWESOME. Tomorrow a shorter day then a hotel for the 3rd , glorious!