Cooking dinner in the church kitchen at Elk Garden United Methodist
CountrysideTaking a break on the 5 mile ride up Clinch Mt. 
After researching the maps a bit yesterday, we decided to take a shortcut that would cut 20 miles off our route, and hopefully detour around a few mountains. It was still hilly, but the start of the day was more enjoyable and we were in a little more populated areas. At lunch time we stopped in a little town called Marion. We were at Subway to eat lunch when we met an older gentleman who we stopped and chatted with for awhile. He offered us some advice on our route & actually ended up buying us lunch! Then we went to the bike shop in Marion, I believe it's "Dean's Bikes" which is operated by an older guy and it had to be the best bike shop ever. They were incredibly helpful & a nice change from the standard bike shop (which is usually staffed by a bunch of dudes who think they are so incredibly awesome for riding fixies & don't give you the time of day). After we got a new tube in Diane's trailer & filled up on air we were on our way.
After about 50 miles we were pretty pooped. Our trailers are SOOOO heavy & they make going up even smaller hills (which we haven't seen yet) a challenge. Unfortunately the last 20 miles was the hard part of the day. We had a 5 mile climb up Clinch Mountain which seemed like it would never end. We didn't make it in until 7:40 at night. Luckily, out in the middle of nowhere, there is a little church that allows cyclists to stay anywhere in the church & have full use of their kitchen & even some food stocks. We porked out on Spaghetti-Os and crashed in the church sanctuary which had nice padded carpet.
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