Washington, PA.

Boy, this was a day to remember! Woke to heavy dew, it cooled off during the night so everything was soaked!!! Foggy to start and stayed overcast most of the day. Legs continue to be really sore, more and more hills now. Bombed down hill (50.3 mph) into Pennsylvania, state #11. Crossed the Allegheny river, large Nuclear power plants on both sides of bridge. Continued to hot and muggy, had some long, steep climbs. Tired as hell!! The last checkpoint for the day was in a cemetery, I layed down in the grass and fell asleep for about 15 minutes. Barely made it into camp, again we are in the middle of nowhere. Kevin got into camp early and per his usual routine had scouted out the nearest bar and bought some beer and brought it back to camp. I had 2 and then layed down for about 1 hr and napped.

After supper Moon began lamenting that this was our last Sunday together and convinced Justin and I to accompany him on our bikes to the bar. We had to ride about 2.5 miles to get there. We proceeded to drink heavily until 0300, the owner was drinking with us, she locked the door @ 0200 and we stayed on task. Moon kept saying we should just stay and drink until it was daylight and time to ride again. One of the patrons had a pickup so he gave us (and our bikes) a lift back to camp, which was a good idea since we were way to intoxicated to even push our bikes back. We made quite an impression on the camp due to our driver's use of his diesel, double cab, lifted 4 wheel drive pickup with very loud exhaust system and the fact that he dropped us off right in the middle of camp. In the morning we had to be rousted out of our tents, we were the last ones to pack up camp, and we missed breakfast. I am sure we were all legally intoxicated when we started the ride. I think I must have sobered up about mile 25. Boy, I felt really good and rode like the wind all day, although I think you could have rebottled my sweat and sold it as beer!!! This is one night I will remember for a long time!