Distance 102.5
Total Distance 724.7
Well, it turned out to be Century Day. It has been a long
time since I rode 100 miles in a day. It didn’t start out with that plan, but the
day went so well I just kept riding. I
was going to have a short riding day tomorrow and there really wasn’t a place
to stay in Bolus, the town I was to stop at tomorrow, so I had the idea I would
split the 39 miles to Bolus between today and tomorrow’s ride. I went to a little town called Albany that
would have split the difference and there was no place to stay there as well,
so I rode the 10 miles to this town. I
have the 7.5 miles to Bolus tomorrow, plus the next day’s ride, so it will be a
60+ mile ride tomorrow. I do only have
two days of riding left, however.
Todays ride was wonderful. It was bike trail all that 102 miles. I don’t think I have ever ridden that many miles
on a trail in consecutive miles. The
nest closest would be when I rode the Trail of the Coeur d’Alene’s in northern
Idaho which is 70 some miles long. Today’s
trail was mostly good, but did have some areas that it was pretty rough. Bike trails seem to get some pretty big
cracks in the pavement and it can be pretty rough. There were areas that the asphalt was just laid. In fact, there were signs that the trail was
closed due to the construction, but a construction worker just told me where
the workers were and to be careful passing them. That particular portion was
just so nice. Just smooth.
The scenery was wonderful. Many farms as well as wet lands and
lakes. On trails, the foliage seems to
grow close to the trail and many times you cant see too far, but it did seem to
open up around the lakes and farms and was just pleasant all day long.
The trails took me through a bunch of small towns today. Dalton, Ashby, Melby, Evansville, Garfield,
Alexandria … It was fun to pull into the
towns and take a look at their Main Street.
Most were pretty quiet places. There was one small town that I passed
through about noon called Brandon. I
just had to stop and take a look at the town that shares the name of my son and
it happened to have a diner and I needed some lunch. Had a hamburger and fries and then got on my
way again.
There were some larger Cities that I passed through as well.
The people using the trails greatly increased in those areas, but overall, there
were not a lot of people that I saw. As
far as animals, saw rabbit, deer, porcupine, squirrel, snakes and many types of
birds.
There is only one restaurant in town, Rudolph’s Redneck
Roost. It is a bar and grill and I
ordered a Reuben. It was fantastic. Could have been how hungry I was.
Lyle was a good sport through all of today. I changed plans on him a couple times and he
would just say, “You’re the one riding, whatever you want.”
A really great day, but I feel it tonight.
A typical Main Street
Beautiful farms
Newly laid asphalt
This was an interesting place. Kind of hard to see, but all kinds of old stuff. It was closed, but would have been fun to see.
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