Day 26: July 31, 2024 - Rest Day
As of this day, day 26, I have ridden 688 miles, just 15% of the total estimated miles. I’ve had eleven rest days, one because I wanted a rest, one because I needed to have my off-bike shoes repaired, four of them due to smoke and five due to waiting for a new rack to arrive. So I’ve had fifteen riding days, with a daily average of 46 miles. That average is rather low due to the extreme heat and some traveling between home stays. If I were to have no more rest days, the earliest I would arrive home is now September 30th. But there are at least sixty-one more riding days. Taking into account fifteen more rest days (one for every four riding days), the earliest I would arrive home is October 15th.
In the middle of the night stars were visible throughout the sky. How wonderful it was to see that instead of smoke.
Do I need to keep saying I was up at 5:00? I’m going to keep getting up at that time as long as I’m dealing with heat.
On my morning walk I saw a bird running around. I thought it might be injured, but when I told Ron, who cooked the steak and potatoes Julia delivered the previous day, he said he thought it could be a quail. What do yo u think? Please let me know by leaving a comment below this post.
Late in the day my reading glasses came undone. I don’t have with me a small enough screwdriver to tighten the screw, but I think I can reassemble the glasses by using dental floss and clear finger nail polish.
As I wrote in Aphorisms and Exhortations,
Everything tightened together, sooner or later, comes apart.
When I went to sleep, and when I checked in the middle of the night, the USPS website showed my rack had arrived in Boise but gave little indication of further progress.
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