Day 33:Wamsutter,Wy to Kemmerer,Wy
Miles on the road: 84
Wind: stiff headwind….14 or 15 mph
Temperature: 84
Terrain: Hilly
Songs stuck in my head: “Longfellow Serenade” –Neil Diamond “Love song for a savior” –Jars of Clay
Word that describes today: punishing
Accommdations: Fairview Inn
If I was in Memphis today: I think I would be out at the Renshaw’s pool.
Scary Moment of the day: Going thru the tunnel. (see picture) I was on the interstate, the speed limit was 75, the road got narrow, I had no shoulder, and I also had no one to hold me. Everything was fine except for the last thing.
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN…….
that today was going to be a rough one when I looked at the forecast on weather.com last night. In particular, the wind direction and speed. Yikes. I’m glad this one is in the books because there was a few times today when I wondered if I was going forward or backward. I guess that I went forward more than backward because I made it to Kemmerer. It took me 5 hours to do the last 48 miles….yeah, it was that bad. It took all I had to hold 10 mph.
DO I REALLY SMELL THAT BAD?...........
So the owner of the Fairview Inn, RJ, (see picture above) invited me over Wed. night to hear more about the Hunger Ride. So, around 9:00pm I head over to chat with him. I should note that recently my hands have been very sore at the end of my rides. I've had some pretty rough shoulders to ride on at times, and I think that maybe the vibration of the road up into the handlebars has something to do with my sore hands despite my premium gloves and tape that's on the handlebars. So, before my visit to see RJ, I load up on the generic brand of "Ben Gay" that I had just recently purchased. Bad move. Within five minutes of hanging out with RJ, he gives me the boot out because he can't take the smell. Gosh, it's just so hard to find friends around here.
JC PENNEY and HOW COOL I AM………
Did you know that JCPenney was founded in Kemmerer,Wy? Well, I didn't either. Unfortunately, I was unable to take a tour of the museum here in Kemmerer last night. This is a very special moment for me because my mom actually worked for JC for almost 20 years at one of the main distribution centers outside of Milwaukee when I was growing up. All my life I’ve had people ask me about my killer threads. And I tell you what.....I just tell em’ about Mom’s 15% employee discount card, and then I walk away. I love to see their faces……disbelief, jealousy, I can see them thinking to themselves, "How did he draw the card? He's so lucky." Yep, all my life I've had to deal with it, everybody is so jealous of me. And you know what, what else can I say? I’m cool. I’m just flat out too cool.
SHOUT OUTS…….
-AAA for leaving half of “Jesse’s Girl” on my voicemail (I’m kind of still debating whether or not that was worthy of a “shout out”)
-RJ at the Fairview Inn
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