Despite many hold ups and challenges today, we made some awesome friends in Edgewood. We met jack dowdy and his friends who work at smiths. After a wonderful meal chatting with jack who happened to be from 5 miles away from Bryce's hometown in Washington crossing, they have us some wonderful needed fruit. Without, I'm not sure we would have made it to Santa Rosa. They were such a blessing. They gave us fruit and we chatted away and enjoyed life together. The one time our paths cross and they feed us. Good people:
But seriously, today was a battle. We changed four flat tires (all Bryce's). There are these little metal shards that get caught in our tires, and we were wondering where they come from. Ends up they are attached to the alligators (or the spare treads that are wrapped around tractor trailer tires) and when they come off on the highway they end up on the shoulder. Where we bike. Brilliant:
Bryce's first flat in a year. He got 4 in 4 hours!!!:
Our second bike pump broke on our fourth flat, stranding us on the highway. (The quality of these pumps is frustrating). But amazingly enough, our pump broke when we were next to a random gas station where we were able to fill up for our last time. So now we are riding without a pump or tube patches cause there isn't another bike store or walmart for 200 miles. Please pray for us.
Also, today we had to run away from 4 dogs on 2 different times. They all snuck up on us, and then we just sprinted away on our bikes. We would just be cruising along, and then the dogs would show up and we'd suddenly be going twice the speed we were going to get away.
Last funny story, we finally pull into Santa Rosa, and after eating dinner we go to set up camp in a random field behind some houses. A dog just starts barking like mad. By this point,we are really starting to dislike dogs. While we are setting up, 3 cop cars cop cars show up, clearly looking for something or someone. We walked over and turned ourselves in, even though they never saw us until we walked up to them. We expected them to say sleep in a hotel or campground or something, but instead he said, 'You can if you want, but you don't have to sleep in this crappy field, so sleep right in the city park across the street!' So that's what we're doing. We like Santa Rosa.
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