Today we had breakfast at the College dining hall, we had delicious muffins, fruit, cereal and coffee. The day started off with very nice weather and several Amish goods stores along the way. Lisa and I tried on some bonnets and ate a juicy watermelon in a produce stand filled with flowers. The first lunch spot was perfect; Ben found a nice shady space with several picnic tables. I greatly enjoyed the left over barbeque pork with Frank’s Hot Sauce and some coleslaw. The back roads that we rode on were absolutely beautiful; during one of our breaks with Lance we noticed that during all of the time we had been sitting in the shade we had not listened to the sound of other human beings at all, no cars! After a eating a delicious peach and talking about the Mexican politics we headed up a hill just to find that Lance got a flat tire. We fixed the tire and then a super heavy rain poured on us. We turned on our blinky red lights and headed out, luckily it was all downhill and we were safe from the crazy monsoon. The day cleared up very quickly and the day was beautiful again. On our second lunch stop I enjoyed more Southern left-over cuisine for the second time. And finally on our last stretch everything went quite smoothly except for the fact that I was quite tired from all of the mileage.


We arrived at the 1st United Methodist Church of Adamsville to find out that Dan Carmody had a fall but is fine. We took shower in the Baptist Church next door thanks to Pastor Phil and then enjoyed dinner supplied by Pastor Deb with the Methodist Church. We had a very pleasant Town Hall meeting with a lot of reflection and much laughter and a birthday cake for Samuel. In total we rode 92 miles, which is for most of us the longest ride we have had up to now. Overall the day was long but absolutely great with high mileage, nice roads, the best company and beautiful scenery.


Ana