Last stretch to Aberdeen!!

June 24th
When I woke up there was no fog, it was a nice change of scenery being able to see when you get out of the tent and Kelly got up without much struggle, so that was a bonus. We had everything packed up and ready to rock out the last 38miles by 7am. We stopped by city hall on our way out to use the bathroom but it was locked, but luckily I remember the guy at the bar saying that there was a gas station on the west edge of town so we headed that way and when we got there it wasn’t open either. Fortunately there was a group of older guys standing there and they told us it would be open in about 5mins. They lady finally showed up and we used the restroom and filled up our water bottles and hit the road. We had a light tail wind and it made a difference. We made awesome time to Groton which was 20miles away, but when we get a tail wind, that means storm and that great time was negated by a 45 minute wait inside the grocery store as a very small but nasty storm blew over. There was one thunder that shook the table we were sitting at. After the storm passed we hit the road again but this time we had a strong head wind and so I buckled down expecting a long 18 mile ride to Aberdeen but the head wind only lasted like a 5 minutes and then we got a really strong warm tail wind and we flew down the road, averaging 22 mph for about 3miles. Then the wind died down and became a light head wind again but it didn’t take long to get home, just over an hour. My mom, grandma and aunt were waiting on the side of the road to cheer us on and take pictures. When we got to my house I was mauled by big baby of a dog, Scooby. He whined and yelped for a good 10minutes making me continually pet him. Oh but it was good to be home. After an afternoon of unpacking and relaxing we headed out to the motel, my mom had won a free nights stay at the Best Western so we went out there for the night and a couple buddy’s came out and we sat around drank a couple beers, watched baseball and shot the breeze until the wee hours of the night, ok 11 but that’s the wee hours for us.