Yet another fantastic day! We biked 45 miles from Suffolk to Waverly,
Va. Today I biked with Andy and Emily most of the ride, and also with
Will and a couple other people. We shared life stories, coolest things
we've done and other random facts about ourselves. About 15 miles we
stopped and did some yoga at a little park. Lunch was a delicious
potato salad and lettuce sandwich, mmmmmm. I also had a brownie muffin
and a banana with peanut butter. There will be lots of interesting
food combinations on this trip i think. It was beautiful outside and
we took our own sweet time, stopping at some swamp and taking some
pictures. I was in the first group to arrive at the Wavery United
Methodist church, around 12:30 ish.
Shortly after unloading the trailer and claiming some floor space for
sleeping later, we walked into town. Welcome to small town America!
We toured the first peanut museum in USA history, the Folk Art museum
and the wood museum, all located in one central piece of land. A very
old woman and a very old man showed us around and we learned a lot
about a man named Miles Carpenter. It was a fun time!
OH! It was our trip leader, Derrick's birthday today! I passed the
disco stick onto him, and his bike got decorated Lady Gaga theme also.
We bought him a McFlurry.
The Methodist women made us all some wonderful food, and afterwards we
were going to celebrate Derricks birthday at a Mexican restaurant, but
our plan was thwarted by the fact that the town closed down at 8pm,
and that two police cars pulled us over (we were walking...). Because
we were walking around at such a late hour (9pm), we were making
people nervous. They also warned us about going into the "bad" part of
town, "You don't want to go on the wrong side of the tracks, if ya
know what I mean" This town was very segregated and the cops were
obviously racist, but it was a good town to experience, it was eye
opening to see that places with this kind of racism still exist. So
we just came back and played cards and hung out. I slept very very
well that night.
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I'm glad to see that even if I can't be with you, you are still going to learn lots of random facts on this trip! Did you know that Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter are the only two peanut farmers to be elected president of the United States? And that the longest recorded peanut was over 4 in long? Now you do!
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