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| I was so looking forward to this day for a long time because I knew that we were going from 5,000 feet in elevation to a lowly 245 feet. But I awoke to the sound of rain and all I wanted to do was stay in bed. In true Bike & Build fashion we ventured on anyway and even though the ride wasn't that bad I was kind of upset because it could have easily been one of my favorites if it hadn't been for the rain. I was cold and wet for almost 7 hours and I even crashed when I rode through an oil slick that took my bike out from under me. |
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| Rainy days result in raincoats of many colors. Raincoats of many colors call for a rainbow lineup. ROY-G-BIV! (Purple is my signature color.) |
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| Comrades, down into the valley we go! |
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| Southern, Erika, Erin and I took a long trip to Flat City today. It all started when Southern got a flat and we pulled over to help her. Erin checked the tire while Southern checked the rim. Erin found a small piece of gold glass in the tire and it took her about 5 minutes to pull it out with some tweezers that she conveniently had in her Camelbak. Meanwhile, I was trying to patch punctured tubes with Southern's patch kit because I was the only one who had a good spare tube. The first patched tube that Southern put into her tire went flat immediately; Erin proceeded to find more glass in the tire. As Southern finally got her tire pumped up I walked past Erika's bike, that was just sitting on the side of the road, and heard the signature hiss of a tire going flat. None of the other patches were sticking to the tubes because everything was soaking wet so we had to use my only tube to fix Erika's flat which was also caused by tiny bits of glass. Erin started checking all of our tires and found shards in her own as well. A man pulled up in the middle of our chaos and just happened to have a spare tube in his car. So we set off an hour later: 20 miles from the host, Erin with a slow leak in her front tire, Southern and Erika just having fixed flats from glass and only one spare tube between the 4 of us. Naturally Southern got another flat and then another when we were 7 and 4 miles from the host. She ended up vanning the rest of the day and Erin, Erika and I rolled into the host frustrated by the hold up. Oh, and yes, Erika tweezed her eyebrows as Erin and Southern were working on their bikes. This picture is proof. |
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| After dinner, one of the host church's members, Jack Hulley, invited us over to his house. He had an in-home movie theater named "Hulleywood", an obvious play on Hollywood. It was extravagant to say the least. There was freshly made popcorn, every soda you could imagine, car racing games, pinball machines, "Hulleywood" engraved glasses, a theater curtain, 2 armrests per person, etc. We watched a great movie called Wild Target featuring Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint aka "Ron Weasley". |
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| HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINE! I'm sorry that this man's birthday tradition involved a spanking... |
The Catty Corner: Ashley Southern has been on Bike & Build for 76 days and couldn't change a flat to save her life.
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