First of all, I would like to apologize that I couldn’t post last night- the place that we stayed didn’t have any wireless internet access. Anyways… Today- we woke up at the same old time- planning on hitting the road early and getting 95 miles down the road to Danville, VA. The day started out interesting- again… About a mile from the hotel, Matthew’s chain broke a link- and we spent the next hour trying to find the missing link to fix the chain. After a while, we just replaced it with a spare link that jerry had stowed in his toolbox and set back out on the Highway. Today we are going to follow Highway 58 all day to Danville, a probably all the way to Virginia Beach- so we’re going to get well acquainted with it… whether we like it or not. Our first 20 miles were climbing, climbing, and more climbing. After our break, we were relieved to see that we were at the top of the last mountain of the Appalachian Mountains. We hauled down the back side of the mountains for the next 20 miles until our 40 mile break around 10:00. Everything was smooth sailing until we got to Martinsville, where we were looking to have another day of Wendy’s, but it turns out the route we were going to take was an interstate- and we were prohibited from riding on it. So we planned a new route that went straight through Martinsville instead of circling around the outskirts of town- and found a Burger King to eat at around 64 miles in. After filling our guts, we set back off for Danville- 31 miles left to our hotel. We finished the next 20 miles quickly- then we took it into the Best Western Hotel for a good night sleep.
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