A day off! And lucky for us- it rained all last night and has been raining all day today. Cold and rainy, not a good recipe for bike riding!
Terrie and I were cooks for breakfast and we prepared bacon and eggs, since we weren’t in any rush to take off. Normally it’s a cold breakfast- yoghurt, cereal, bananas, bagels, etc, but we had more time this morning. The rain let up while we were eating, but started again around 9 and kept going all day. We took the van into Columbus Ohio to see the sites, a good way to spend a rainy day! We all split up doing various things. First to REI to get stuff- bikers love getting stuff. I wanted to replace my headlight as the battery was wearing out, and replace some water bottles that started to have strange mold like things growing in it. Then several of us were dropped off at the Columbus Museum of Art. A great exposition of artwork by Louise Nevelson.
I then went off to get a new microSD card for my GoPro, as the current one for some reason wasn’t downloading to my iPad so I lost all of yesterday’s footage. And then to Pierogi Mountain Restaurant to have lunch and take advantage of the WiFi. I tell you, wifi at these camping areas is non-existent. Even if they say they have it, they don’t. So it is really hard to upload files, particularly big video files. I will do my best!
Bad news is that Scott is leaving us. We dropped him off in Columbus and is flying back to Santa Barbara this evening. So we are down to 9 riders with 2 leaders. Hopefully he may rejoin us later on as we get farther West. Good news is that Theo, the guy who took the bad fall, is mending well and is in good spirits. He hopes to be back on the bike in several weeks but meanwhile is riding along in the support van and giving us all moral encouragement! He really wants to get back riding so we are all hoping his face mends well and he’ll get the green light to rejoin us riding, soon.
Biking across the USA with Mike 
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