54 miles today, 270.5 miles towards goal.
We arrived here…
… at about 5 pm. The wonderful people of the Ralston Grange make their park available to people riding through on the trail; we are very grateful because there is nowhere else to camp for tens of miles around.
The day started early and Bob and Steve were very proud of themselves for getting out of camp by about 8 am. We rode the 1.5 miles to the gastro-gas-station and ordered breakfast there. The departure time from the gas station was 9:15, so we really haven’t upped our game much.
Bob is still suffering some sort of PTSD from previous days on the trail, so we spent the day entirely (with a few hundred yard exception for me) on the road.
The roads were quiet and the eastern Washington drivers were exceptionally courteous so it was great. The trail would undoubtedly have been flatter…
…but it was hard going on the section I tried.
We fueled up at the grocery store in Warden and stopped for ice cream in Lind. Lind is a quaint, strange, little town, and apparently “home of the combine’ demolition derby” (see evidence below)
We found a pretty good grocery store in Warden so we have fresh fruit again and Bob and Steve selected spam and tortillas for dinner. However, as we arrived in town, we saw a sign at the end of a driveway, ‘Eggs $4’. So after much debate Bob went foraging with $4 in his pocket, and retuned with a dozen eggs. As a result, the menu has been updated to just eggs and SPAM) the tortillas will become lunch tomorrow (with peanut butter and banana 🙂).
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