Wythesville - Damascus
60 miles
5 hours and 15 minutes in the saddle
34.5 mph max speed
11.4 mph average speed
My strategy of getting down to breakfast earlier than Stephen has worked. I had no trouble getting up the hills today. A hearty and delicious lunch at Sugar Grove also helped. We had lunch with the locals who were all interested to hear about our bike ride.
After long last we have managed to purchase dog whistles. A small pet shop in Rural Retreat (what a great name!) had the high pitched whistles that we have spent the past two weeks looking for.
The ride today has taken us through Mount Rogers State Park on quiet, almost traffic free roads. The climbs have been gentle making for a nice ride. The best bit of today's ride was the 10 mile descent into Damascus. At 28 mph we broke the 25mph speed limit around a bend. Woohooo!
Tonight we are staying at Montgomery Homestead B&B, it is a very nice and inexpensive B&B. We are staying here with Dave who is hiking the 2000 mile Appalachian trail! He started in Georgia in February and will finish in Maine in the autumn. We think our bike ride is a big trip, but it is nothing in comparison to Dave's hike. He is an excellent pianist and when we arrived he was playing the piano in the room next to our bedroom. It was almost like being in one of those posh hotels where you have a pianist in the lobby.
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