May 13th Elk Garden to Breaks Interstate Park 50 miles

Breaks Interstate Park- 5 miles from the Kentucky border

Elk Garden United Methodist Church

Today was yet another day of hills (seems like it will be the common theme for this trip). We stopped at the post office in Honaker to send home some more weight (and any decent clothes I had left) where we ended up staying for an hour because everybody stopped to talk to us. The people in Virginia are so friendly!

We had a big hill (or mountain) after Honaker and then a nice curvy 6 miles downhill into Council, VA where we stopped and talked to an older couple that was picking some nasty greens off the side of the road (apparently edible- though I doubt it). They told us when we got into the town of Davenport to stop at the post office & have the post master ring up to the diner which is only open when there are customers- and the cook would whip us up a meal. So we did. Oh small towns.

We made it through some more tough riding and into Breaks Interstate Park, where we took the next day off again.