“Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving”. – Albert Einstein
highpoints: seeing the armadillo on the side of the road
seeing a red-tailed hawk being mobbed by smaller birds
saw lots of waterfalls – Jackson Falls and Fall Hollow where Stuart and Miranda stood under the waterfall and did not get wet.
We saw tobacco drying in a barn and we saw the spot where Meriweather Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame died of two gunshot wounds, one to the chest and one to the head, on October 11 1809. No one knows whether it was murder or suicide.
The last 15 miles of the journey were made after dark as the weather threatened snow. We kept ourselves warm by singing Christmas carols and the entire score of Mary Poppins.
Dinner was pizza and hamburgers and corn dogs and potato wedges in an Exxon diner and it tasted scrumptious.
What we learned:
1. make sure your shoelaces are tucked into your shoes so they don’t get caught in the chain rings (unfortunately this happened to Miranda twice, the first time within two minutes of the start of the trip).
2. Pacing. We learned that especially on the first day (when we had a lot of miles ahead) we needed to keep an eye on the time that we spent on our initial sightseeing stops.
3. Delete all the photographs on your camera BEFORE the start of the trip.
4. You can make an improvised banana split with a single banana and a small tube of vanilla goo.
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