We decided to start getting up earlier to beat the heat and end earlier in the evenings. We woke up with smith rock still blanketing the canyon below with a cool shadow. As the alarm went off we just tightened our mummy bags up and rolled over for just five more minutes. Which turned into another solid 40 min of sleep, until the sun came up over smith rock and turn the tent into a sauna. Me and Jarod got out of the tent and as usual Chad slept for another 10 min. We packed up camp and headed off to the small town of Mitchell, Oregon. We biked about 2 miles and I got a front flat tire once again. After a quick fix we were back on the road and heading to the middle of nowhere. The country side was amazing and made for a beautiful afternoon ride. It seemed like the sun just kept getting hotter and hotter and the miles longer and longer as we rode on. We finally came to the small town of Primeville and ate lunch. We saw a sign for subway....umm chocolate chip cookies! We headed in to town to find the subway and as we went down main street all three of us screamed PIZZA BUFFET! This took care of lunch and after a lot of pizza and a quick water bottle fill, we saddled up for our trek to Mitchell. We only had one long, tall obstacle ahead of us....Ochacco pass. It felt like we climbed forever as the temperature climbed and seemed like it was not going to stop. Finally we saw our favorite sign at the top of the hill, the down hill sign with a 7% down grade for miles.
The sun started to fall behind the mountains as we approached the small town of Mitchell. A big sign read business district, we turned down the road thinking we could get a cool drink from the local store. The first ten buildings we came to either where falling apart or had a closed sign in the window. This was not a good feeling due to the fact we just biked through a desert and really needed some donuts. We found just one small store open in town that did not have much but was enough to feed us, no donuts though. As we were checking out, the cashier lady told us three girls just bought some fire wood from them and where biking too. This caught our attention and we asked if they were staying in the camp ground across the road. She said yes and we got our food and peddle to the camp grounds not knowing what to expect. As we entered the camp, we found that there where five girls and they where heading to Maine. After further discussion we found that they were riding the same route we where until Yellowstone National park. Both groups had a camp fire and just talked about our adventures so far. We both decided it would be sweet if we grouped up and rode together till Yellowstone.
We barley knew each other, but we had one goal in common, THE EAST COAST!
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