23 days and only one pair of underwear (ok, two pairs).
Today I had the good fortunate to be accompanied by groupie sisters, Christine and Kathryn. It made the ride go by very fast having the two of them (dressed exactly the same) trailing me patiently as I went at my slow pace. It cracked me up that even though they were both in the car on the way up they still had plenty to talk about.
It was weird having them leave after 30 miles though. At first I was riding with people and all the sudden I was alone again in the middle of nowhere.
The motel I’m at reminds me of the motel the main character stays at on the first night on his adventure in Box of Moonlight (one of my favorite movies). There is a campground in the area but it looks to be five miles off route and, in my mind that is too far.
The cool part of today was seeing a baby rattlesnake as I took a water break. (Babies are more dangerous than their parents as they don’t know when to stop injecting venom.) I was worried that no one would believe me so I got as close as I could without freaking out and took a picture.
While riding on Harris Grade Road the Lompoc the Air Force Base launched some huge missile or plane that moved very fast. It was pretty cool. Not sure if I’m allowed to write any more as it may have been top secret.
Trivia: Why where Chile Relleno’s first created?
I’ve decided that struggle is good. It builds muscle, develops the mind, and builds confidence. Struggle that is insignificant is simply frustration. Struggle that is too grand is failure. But failure can be replaced by success. (For some reason I thought about that as I lied in my tent the other night. When you can’t sleep and you’re camping you are forced to think a lot.
That’s about as deep as this blog is going to get.
My girlfriend gave me an id bracelet similar to the one’s dogs where. This is actually pretty cool as I used to write my name and parents number in permanent pen when I would go swimming in the ocean alone training for triathlons. I think it stays on permanently as I can’t figure out how to get it off – I suppose I can now relate to prisoners on probation. Hope it doesn’t set off metal detectors at the airport.
Time to go. Tonight is a rare night as I actually have dinner plans. Kelly C. and Jason K., regular contributors and/or readers, are stopping by.
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Box of Moonlight sounds like a good movie; I'd never heard of it, but that's a good cast.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome that you have dinner plans. You sound revitalized.
Well you see the Jewish people were finally allowed to leave Egypt, but they had to leave in a big hurry, and they didn't have time to finish making chile burritos for themselves. So they took chiles that they were getting ready to make into burritos and they stuffed them and called it chile relleno, and that is why Jewish people eat that particular food every year around Passover to commemorate their flight into the desert.