August 8th
13:45-18:18
Washington DC to Friendville MD
178 Miles
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So, by 18:18 it was raining, I was wet and I realized I wasn't going to get even close to my target stopping site. I spied an exit and pulled off in Friendsville Md. I stopped at the first place and, dripping wet, asked if they had a room. Unfortunately they were booked up but she called the other place and they had a couple of rooms. So I stopped at "Sunset Inn" in Friendsville Md. | |
| It was upstairs and overlooked the pool. The parking lot was rocks and the small wooden kickstand I "made" (10 seconds on the table saw) was useful. I stripped the gear off and covered the bike. | ||
| When I took the gear off of the bike I found that the left buckle that I had used a strap on had broken and, while I could find some pieces of the buckle, I didn't find the strap. I figured it was gone. | ||
| I walked down to the town (about 1/2 mile) and to the grocery store. There were no restaurants in town and it looked like everything was closing up. The grocery store had most of the lights out and when I walked by the back room there was a poker/dice game going on (picture of 4 or 5 guys and one with money in his hand). I walked around a couple of times and finally grabbed a premade deli-sandwich, a bag of chips and a Diet-Coke. | ||
| I commented that I hoped I wasn't holding her up, she said that I would be the first customer of the following morning. | ||
| Anyway, I walked back up the hill to my room. It was dark and a little rainy. The hills looked cool with clouds hovering around the tops. | ||
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When I got done with "dinner", I undressed and because of the strap, checked out my back. There were three red insect bite-size marks in the middle of my back. I took a quick picture. |  |
| I put my wet gloves on top of the light fixture hoping to dry them out. After a while I turned them over. It turns out that this isn't such a great idea since my left glove looks like it shrunk. It took a couple of hours the next day to get them comfortable again (the right glove needed to be stretched out a little). | ||
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