Today was the shortest day of riding we've had so far, 37 miles. We left Roanoke this morning and headed up over the continental divide to Blacksburg. The hills were tough, but not as bad as everyone was mentally prepared for. The scenery was beautiful. I really love the Appalachians. We got into Blacksburg early, before the van and trailer, so few of us stopped for coffee in the downtown area across from VA Tech's campus. We have the whole afternoon to ourselves, which I think is going to be a pretty rare thing this summer. We're staying at the Blacksburg YMCA/Thrift Store tonight. They provided some pretty awesome snacks for us this afternoon. Everyone we've encountered so far has been so generous and excited about what we're doing.. I love it.
I might write about the last week's adventures at some point, but probably not so I'll recap... We left VA Beach for Suffolk (50 miles) last Saturday after 2 days of orientation, and spent Sunday cleaning up and repairing tornado damage. Monday we rode 70 miles to Emporia, with the first half on the highway (not a good idea, don't ever do that). On Tuesday we moved on to Victoria, which was about 60 miles, and we began to see some hills towards the end. Wednesday we really started getting into the foothills on the way to Lynchburg, where we put sheetrock up in a Habitat house. On Friday we rode to Roanoke. I was on sweep with Joe, which went smoothly after some confusion with the directions around Bedford. Everything is absolutely as awesome as I hoped.
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