Gary's Bike Ride

I just took 45 minutes to post, wanted to add a picture and lost the whole thing. Where do things disappear to? Here goes again. Gary left around 8:40 this morning. The kids and I got busy around the camp and as we were pulling out Gary called and said he was in Uniontown. Chalk down 35 miles for him. We didn't catch him until 3 p.m. by that time he had 58.5 miles down and was tuckered out. We picked him up and popped over the next mountain to Ohiopyle where he will hit Rails to Trails path to Cumberland. He has about 74 more miles to go and the adventure is Over. The kids and I will drop him off tomorrow morning and since we can't follow him on this last section we are Going Home. When he gets close to Cumberland he will call me and we will go pick him up. I just can't make him pedal 20 more miles. He probably wouldn't care. I was talking to a couple friends today and they asked if Gary had had any problems on his trip. I told them that last week he stopped at a pharmacy and asked if they had anything for a chafed rear end. They gave him a powder called Monkey Butt. We laughed about it , applied it and It helped.. So I told them I powder his hiney each morning and send him off in a cloud of smoke. This morning before we left the campsite R.J. came to the caller door and said "Mom, I got some firewood". I told him it was daytime and we didn't need it we were pulling out. He insisted so I had him to put it in the storage unit. I asked him where he got it and he told me "next door ". I said oh, no you have to take it back. He told me they were gone, so I let him keep it. The next thing I knew we had 5 pieces of wood stacked in our storage compartment. R.J. sat outside the camper and as others pulled out he checked their area and if they left any wood behind he claimed it. Needless to say we had a nice campfire this evening.Good night, God bless.

Good morning and Happy Sabbath. Gary made 57 miles yesterday on the many hills in West Virginia. We left Ohio, went through Bridgeport and Wheeling West Virginia. We stayed in a KOA in Washington, Pa. Last night. Found a church to attend this morning. I'm dressed and waiting for the rest of the crew to wake up. For the first time in 6 weeks I was the first one to bed last night. It was only 9:15. Woke up refreshed at 7 this morning. Only a couple more days and we should be at home sweet home.

I can't remember what is on my mind. Not really sure I have one. My days are running together do I'm not really sure about that either. I think today was Tuesday. We didn't get out of camp until 10:30. Drove around Indianapolis then dropped Gary off on route 40 which should bring us through Ohio and the rest of the way to Cumberland. Hoping we will pass close to our granddaughter to be able to see her. Gary did 89 miles today and we actually for the first time stopped early. We are just over the Ohio State line at a nice campground. The kids and pap were able to swim in the pool while I fixed dinner. Black beans and rice; hope there isn't any tooting tonight. Beans times 5 could become pretty explosive. Just finished the laundry. The laundry here at camp closed at 11, my laundry wasn't quite dry so in the middle of my floor stands a drying rack with my laundry on it. No one can get by it. I will have to be the first one up to fold clothes so we can move around. Trying to figure out how I am going to make it to my bed. I have to climb over R.J. walk on the cushions around the table and dive into my bed. Oh, camping is sooo much fun. Good night, God bless all.

I started Monday's post early today but it disappeared. Can't remember what I wrote or how far I got. Woke up at 7:30 ish this morning and Gary walked into wal-Mart and purchased, tire patches, a tire pump and some slime for his 2 flat tires, ate breakfast and left for route 24. By the time we get there it is 12:30. Check list: helmet,gloves,sunglasses,water, Gatorade, flashing light for rear of bike,PRAYER, and off he goes. Off we go too. We stop ata Dollar General, must have stayed too long because Gary caught us before we left. Later the kids and I stopped at a co-op. Stayed there a long time but kasey didn't catch us. Went a little further and waited for 2 hours. No Gary. Called him 12 times on his phone no answer. Backtrack Mary heads 16 miles down the road before seeing him. Stopped and talked with him. Fussed about his not answering. He had his Bluetooth on but had the volume off. He promised to call me every hour (or two) from now on. I'm good with that. Went back the 26 miles to wait again and he calls. The road is too rough to ride. Back down the road 8 miles and pick him up. He did 69 miles but he said it felt like 169 miles. Headed out to a campground. Caboose RV and campground in Rileysburg, IN. Yep another state down the hatch. Whenever we go off course to camp everyone gets up early yo take pap yo his beginning point. This should be fun tomorrow morning because we hit 2 detours to get here this evening. Of course the campground was closed when we pulled in. Had to leave credit card info in a drop box. Don't really like that. Nice playground and lake for kids. Too late to use it and we will be gone early tomorrow. They would have loved to play here.

Only traveled 80 miles today. A really really late start (10:30) and a lot of uphill peddling. Just wanted to let you know that the Sheriff Dept. In Iowa are on their toes too. Was pulled over waiting and a kind officer stopped to check on us. I checked out a R.V park around 4:30, it was in the town of Atlantic, behind a motel, on a hillside, no pull through, water and electricity, no sewer, one porta pot, no playground for the kids. Docking at Wal-Mart again. It too is on a hillside and we were able to see people setting off fireworks from various locations. Kids thought it was really neat. When Gary biked in around 5:30 I had dinner started. Zoie's noodle soup. After dinner we set up our lawn chairs on the parking lot and watched fireworks from several areas around town. Kids loved it. Then we played a game of baseball and everyone turned in. Almost everyone. Still traveling route 71, will change to 34 at Tinville Junction, Iowa to Burlington, a border town in Illinois. While we were watching fireworks a big black cloud overshadowed us. Gary said, if it is raining heavily tomorrow I will have an extra passenger.
I didn't tell him it's also laundry day. Looking forward to Sabbath. I wonder what church God has in store for us. I also wonder if they will have pot luck. The last 2 weeks we have been blessed. Oh, while I was checking out that great RV park this afternoon, we saw a family stranded by the roadside so we gave them a donation of the so called R.V park camping fee.
Good night, sweet dreams.