Only bicycled 40 miles today in that the only other camp site would have been 100 miles. Very nice sunny day with some breeze blowing on the backs of us today to help push us along. Mild, rolling hills today; none which required walking. It was probably our easiest and most relaxing ride of the trip. We are camped at Coal River with free showers, right next to a covered gazebo with a fire pit and lots of free firewood. Saw more buffalo today. They sure are big. Cliff was eating a hard boiled egg today at our lunch stop and he was sprinkling some strange looking stuff on it. I asked him what it was and he said pepper. I commented about the color and he said it was special pepper that Kathy bought him that was low fat!! That was a first for me. Cody, Cliff and Kathy's 11 year old grandson and I are sitting in camp comparing mosquito bites. He is sure that he has more than I do, but he said he has 25 and I have at least 100. One thing about so many is that the new ones don't seem so bad. My legs seem to be getting into shape, but my hands are asleep most of the time while I am riding and it still takes a couple minute break every 5 miles to recover from "butt soreness". The roads are being covered with oil and gravel in many places so when anybody passes us either way it makes for a lot of dust. The shoulders where we have been riding have a lot of the excess gravel which is hard to ride in so we ride up on the road where tires have made it smoother, with one eye in our mirror so we can move back to the side when a truck or motorhome comes.. I am hoping that tomorrow has less of that. Hope all is going well at home in church. I prayed hard all day for Sam's preaching to be annointed.
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