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benitosan:ANneight: Crystal & Allison are doing fab! Allison’s a little sick right now due to our hectic schedule. We wake up at 5am, ride at 6am, and get to bed around 11pm, so people are getting tired. I keep recommending RedBull ps Crystal has the SEXIEST bike on the tour = LOOK 585 with Campy11 carbon gruppo & Ultra Shamals, SAY WHAT! :heartsabove:

Anyways, to recap today: the most amazing day EVER! We left our ghetto DC hotel at 6am, did an 85mile ride to Bowling Green, Virginia. Good weather, fast pace! Got here in about 5hrs. Today we are at the coolest campsite ever! They have: a swimming pool, hot tub, mini golf, skee ball, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, tetherball, pingpong, billiards, a playground, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! :crazy: this place is like an amusement park/resort! It’s just missing a petting zoo & dancefloor. Gonna camp & campfire tonite & bond with the riders… did I mention that there are alot of cute girls on this tour? Haha :devil:

YelliCinelliJohn: I actually think that we may be passing thru Alabama. I know that tomorrow we go to Richmond, VA for another vodka party :peace:

So we’re getting further South & it’s getting hotter & more humid. The bugs are also getting bigger Thus far, this has been the most amazing experience: seeing the country via bicycle, getting supported (and paid!) by really cool/generous people, riding with AMAZING people from all over the USA & world, and of course, drinking! :partytilyoudrop:

More tomorrow…

pps. Didn’t weigh myself, will prolly sweat off 20lbs, as well as work off another 20, I might even rock the superskinny jeans back in SF?

benitosan:Today: easy ride from Bowling Green to Richmond, VA = Marlboro Country!!! :cheer: it’s really starting to warm up now & the humidity, Mosquitos, Ticks, Chiggers (WTF?) are making things uncomfortable. Anyways, the ride was easy, only 40miles/2hrs… Another stay at the Holiday Inn, and another party with food/vodka at some swank restaurant/bar on a lake, felt like a country-club too as everyone was wearing topsiders, khakis, and polos (but not the Dolores Park version, the real kind, hehe).

AND NOW, the real work & pain start… We have 4 consecutive 80mile days before we get to HOTlanta, Georgia on the 8th of July. Weather is forecast to be hotter & more humid! I really don’t know how people live in these conditions. I really miss the Bay Area weather anyways, we are definitely being taken care of by the 42below company, our responsibilty is just to ride, drink, eat, and be seen at parties… TOUGH summer job, I know! :tooth:

I’ll let y’all know how life in the Dirty South treats us, maybe I’ll even come back with a drawal or Wranglers!

benitosan:rode 85miles to South Hill, Virginia today. It is HOT. Ate Subway again, oh joy the pleasures of eating on the road in the middle of nowhere! (just had to sidestep a CrackerBarrel to get there… NOT ready to pull that trigger… YET?). Kinda uneventful today, just blasting down lonely highways looking at grassland & barns, but at least the miles go by really quickly when you’re not twisting around inside the big city. Anyways, now it’s time for beer, more food, a nap, and SWIMMING HOLE TIME! Talk later…