Day 24, Wednesday, July 23.
Woodbury, MN—Day Off #l
We woke up this morning and walked upstairs to find a breakfast table that looked like it was cut straight out of a Better Homes & Gardens magazine. There was a little bit of everything: fruit, toast, eggs, cereal, and milk and orange juice poured into glass pitchers. Every bit of our stay was like this. Coming off of three weeks of sitting on a bike all day, eating refried beans out of the can while resting outside of a gas station, and sleeping on the hard ground each night, THIS was heaven.
The main item on today's agenda was getting our wheels trued. Since this was the halfway mark of our trip, we also took this opportunity to rotate our tires as well (especially since we could see the threads beginning to show through on the back tires). Afterwards, we washed, waxed and lubed up our bikes. Our aluminum Cannondale R500T bikes have worn the miles well, but even the best bikes show two thousand miles of wear. Later in the day, we went to Olive Garden for a good bit of pasta. We had a very relaxing stay with our friends and are looking forward to see more friends along way to the Atlantic.
(Photo: David and I cleaning our bikes as we enjoy the day off.)
We woke up this morning and walked upstairs to find a breakfast table that looked like it was cut straight out of a Better Homes & Gardens magazine. There was a little bit of everything: fruit, toast, eggs, cereal, and milk and orange juice poured into glass pitchers. Every bit of our stay was like this. Coming off of three weeks of sitting on a bike all day, eating refried beans out of the can while resting outside of a gas station, and sleeping on the hard ground each night, THIS was heaven.
The main item on today's agenda was getting our wheels trued. Since this was the halfway mark of our trip, we also took this opportunity to rotate our tires as well (especially since we could see the threads beginning to show through on the back tires). Afterwards, we washed, waxed and lubed up our bikes. Our aluminum Cannondale R500T bikes have worn the miles well, but even the best bikes show two thousand miles of wear. Later in the day, we went to Olive Garden for a good bit of pasta. We had a very relaxing stay with our friends and are looking forward to see more friends along way to the Atlantic.
(Photo: David and I cleaning our bikes as we enjoy the day off.)
