Another heaterless night. It is still dark @ 7:00AM get up time for 9:00AM meeting @ fish hatchery for ride w/ Scott, Chris, & Paul.

Skies cleared to beautiful blue, no clouds with a crisp temp.

Rode up daniel ridge loop and road climbed up to Butter gap & down. Today was way less exerting and technical than yesterday’s ride. Short day.

Bid boys goodbye. While Scott was getting rig ready to leave parking lot I was already engaged in another group of riders and almost another ride.

Hung in parking lot soaking up sun’s warmth. Drove to Davidson River XG for a paid shower. Drove down river and walked on exercise trail along river enjoying the being outside. Thing about skiing is I get to stay outside the entire day. Biking, when it is cold is a matter of doing the ride & beating it back into comfort inside. But biking takes more out of me than a whole day of skiing does.

Tired.

Tomorrow another PT session. Knee bothers me.

SORBA ride @ DuPont on Wed.

Starting to make plans to move on. Rode the big trails here and no point continuing to reride and attempt to ride the parts I walked because I probably walked for a good reason that would not change with another reride.

Off to woods again.

Woke up to an alarm this AM after another no heater night to make my 9:00AM PT appointment.

I entered the street address of the clinic and there are 2 Oakdale roads / streets & gps choose road. PT is on street. Wonderful cell phone, called Kim and she navigated me in.

Interesting PT. Kim is more osteopath in using subtle movement. She said my pelvis was not aligned which contributes to knee and ankle. She gave me 2 small stretches I did not know. Insurance pays 100%: I will return.

Visited The Hub for chat & phone numbers. Today on rest day i am working on bike and planning. I called Liberty in Asheville for grease zerks for the 1 I popped out of frame. Had them and I drove to town. Hung in the shop talking w/ several people. A wrench, Joe Gallwitz, told me about his riding the 50 states. He was working on a travel job that enabled him to ride most of the states on company dime. Took him 4 years. Me? less than a year for just 48 and on my own savings. He did more riding than I did in some of the states.

Bought new issue of Mountain Bike. I was skimming it while waiting out road construction bottleneck. What do you know? A feature blurb was on Asheville and the Liberty Bike shop.

I let a junior hi activity bus in front of me in the construction zone. The boys in the back of the bus were freaking kids out about the mojos on my dashboard. Then some of them started making faces thru the weird mirror on the back door. While they had a good eye on me I toffed my cap and pointed at my head. I lip read 1 boy’s comment: He’s bald. Eyes front.

Back in Brevard I parked behind the strip mall and washed the mud off my bike and perform some maintanence. Several men stopped to talk to me about my rig and my adventures. listenening to accents.

Drove to PO to pick up my mail.

Shopped at the ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) in my continuing search for Moonshine. Chatted w/ the clerks about moonshine & had fun. Picked Junior Johnson’s Midnight Moon 100% neutral grain spirits, 40%. Crystal clear. Not much taste but seems to pack a good punch. Finding the correct keys on the keyboard is challenging.

Scott called and he was on the road from Indy. Meeting tomorrow for same ride we did last week.

Learned from Kim that there is a genuine Cajon restaurant in town, 2 cousins. She lived in  New Orleans.

Bought diesel: $2.41/gal. Bought a SPARK drink, the 7% alcohol caffine, ginseng, herbs, Plus. People in Harisonburg were drinking it. No, prefer the beer as beer.

Friday night blues on XM. Whooowho moonshine.