Sandra put together an AWESOME breakfast this morning that included eggs, sausage, cinnamon buns, and toast. Don't know how she was able to do all she did for us with a 3 year old and a brand new 6 week old in the house. AND she had just put on her high school class reunion the weekend before. Amy said to me tonight she doesn't know how she does it all!
Her 3-year-old son Landon did his best to give us directions to where we were headed today. "You need to go down this a-way, take a left, cross the river, and then go to Roanoke!" As far as how to cross the river . . . "Oh, you'll need to get a boat or a helicopter."
I think we did pretty much everything he instructed except for the Roanoke part . . . and the boat and helicopter part. We'll have to save that for another time.
Scott said he woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of pouring rain. Luckily the rain had stopped by the time we woke up. Turns out this was a classic "sucker hole." We shoved off this morning headed for Blacksburg and had a good hour with no precip - but then the skies began to unload and continued to do so for the next three hours. Three days in a row with saturating rain. Even for a guy used to riding in rain around Portland - this is beginning to get a little old . . .
| Scott Adams is now a member of Destination: Across the Nation. |
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Was great riding with Scott today and traveling some of the same roads I used to ride when I was at Virginia Tech!! Too bad much of the mountain scenery was obscured by the gloom - but I was still jazzed about reviting the old haunts, and regailing Scott with stories of great rides of years past.
| It's not difficult to see why I remember riding around these parts while at VT as being so incredibly awesome. Here's just a sample of today's ride. |
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Amy was extraordinarily excited when she found a Starbucks today. She got SO excited that she drove the truck with trailer-in-tow down a dead end L-shaped parking lot that was full of cars and provided no way to turn around. She had started a LONG back-up of the trailer when some hot-rod dude went by too close and shot her a scowl that sent her ballistic. I guess she hurled an expletive at that guy (the BIG one). She felt so guilty about doing that in front of the girls that they both earned Strawberry & Cream Frappacino's as pay-ola.
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Finished the ride and got a hot shower at our hotel in Blacksburg - then we all went out for dinner and a tour around campus. Naturally it wasn't raining any longer since we weren't on our bikes, which made the foot tour of campus really nice. The girls got a look at my old dorm, etc and I told them some stories I probably shouldn't have told (judging by the hairy eyeball I was getting from Amy).
Good times.
We finished up the evening with a visit to Ben & Jerry's in downtown. Amy started off with a frozen yogurt. She had a bite of my double-scoop waffle cone "Chocolate Therapy" and decided that frozen yogurt was simply inadequate, so she tossed it. She went back in and bought a double-scoop waffle cone of "Chocolate Therapy" - which I was more than happy to help her finish.
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