Sunday, June 26th:

Today we woke up to another interesting morning… and no, nobody lost a glove today. But we were up and ready for some breakfast at 5:00- so Matthew and I went to the lobby for the continental breakfast that we were told would be ready for us. Upon arriving there, we were just looking at the food, when an employee came up and asked us what we thought we were doing. We told him that we were gonna grab some breakfast before we left for our ride today. Promptly, he responded that the breakfast was only available from 6 to 9. We were in the middle of telling him that we had talked to a lady yesterday who said otherwise- when he raised his voice at us, saying “6 TO 9!!!” I thanked the man sarcastically and we went back to our room. After telling everyone, Ed just could not stand for that. He went back to the lobby area and gave this man a little talking to. He got his name and wrote him up to the lodge’s management for being rude to guests. Needless to say, when I checked out of the hotel, he was on his best manners. Well after that scuffle, we set on our way for Hillsville, VA- 102 miles from our hotel. After looking at the route, though, I noticed that there was a much quicker way to make it there. In fact this new route brought the day down to 95 miles- so we set out on Highway 11 north, which followed I-81 Northbound. We hit our 20 mile break fairly early, and averaging just under 13 miles per hour. Later, at our 40 miles break we had kept up the exact same pace and arrived at a nice little place with a bench- right around 9:40. We set back off, towards Wytheville, where we would be having our 60 mile break and lunch at Wendy’s again. A few miles after we pulled back onto the road a cop stopped next to me- just to check that I hadn’t broken down- and with that, we continued on our way. We took a cut off that led us to Highway 52- which heads straight south to Hillsville. With 7 miles left, we took our last break- and made it a quick one- because we were all super tired. After we rested for a few minutes we took it into the small hotel- and grabbed a good night sleep for tomorrow.