17/09/2010 Day 17
Distance Travelled:
Money Spent: $14 at Walmart for some more fuel and groceries and $5 as a donation at a free food place.
Time cycling: 2 hours
Total Distance Traveled: 1060 km
Money withdrawn: $200
Looking at the forecast for the day it looked like it was going to piss down hard all day, I was going to stay with Dane and Ben for another night but the weather wasn’t that bad and I decided to push on as next week Saturday will be my 5th year anniversary of travelling and I would love to celebrate it in a big city, the closest big being San Francisco 800km away, I will have to push myself and do at least 100km a day, easily possible but depending on weather and sights I might want to see and along the way..
We will see if I make it or not.
I left at 11 after Ben offered me some cookies and energy bars and I made my way to Walmart to pick up some food and more stove fuel, I got chatting to a very friendly woman with a beard for some time, she was kind but she really could have something about the hair growth on her chin.
Well, after seeing this I really wasn’t hungry but I passed by a sign offering free lunch between 11 and 12.30, it was mainly for homeless people but I guess I’m in that category and I thought ‘hey, why not’, I got some weird looks when I entered but one guy who worked there (Angel) got me a plate of food, I helped myself to some fruit, a pepsi and some cake for desert and it was all very tasty and free. As it was a charitable organization I donated $5 for all the food and even was given some extra cake and pepsi to take on the road.
Later I passed by a house with junk scattered everywhere on the front lawn with a sign saying ‘free’… I thought today was my lucky day! I tried to improvise a rearview mirror to attach to my handlebar but all I could find that was reflective was a CD, it didn’t work too well so I scrapped it. I must have outstayed my welcome at this junkyard because as I was sifting through the piles of junk upturning boxes apparently I was breaking some stuff and I was asked to leave by a enormously fat topless biker looking guy, I couldn’t quite understand as it was a pig sty anyway but I wasn’t looking for an argument with a guy that probably could suffocate me in his rolls of fat or kill me by simply sitting on me
As I left it again started pissing down, and I only got 20 Miles down the road before the rain was too much and I set up camp for the night under a tree in another forest plantation. I went to bed very early this night.
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