Berea

We haven't posted about our days in awhile! It's been a fun couple of days. Berea was really good. We were delighted to see Sonja's friend Hilary on Berea, and she graciously shared her apartment and food with us.  We had a lovely dinner on Monday and then walked around downtown Berea for a bit. What a beautiful campus! We were bit jealous of all the trees and garden spaces on the campus. We weren't jealous of the super loud pedestrian crossing signals, though. :)

The next morning we spent a few hours in the coffee shop and met two delightful women who had been college friends while since years ago. After some library time, we went over to the college bike shop to get a few things checked out. There we meet these crazy people. They were emanating stress with every move and all of this oozing stress was being videotaped by professional looking cameramen. Apparently there's this crazy bike race in which people race the trans am trail (the one that we're more or less following) in absurdly quick amounts of time. For instance, the people we met were averaging 200 miles a day, and had been reading for 18 days. They were acting pretty rudely, but who would be on their best behavior with that sorry of absurdity? Mostly we felt bad for the poor college kid who these racers were demanding fix their bikes. We were all feeling pretty frenzied, even after they left. It was super weird, and we are so certainly never doing any crazy races  like that!

We dodged thunderstorms on the way to our warmshowers host's and made it there without getting too wet, even with a wrong turn and some bonus miles. We had a great dinner with Kim and get family and really enjoyed seeing their beautiful home.

One of our new favorite roads. Between Berea and Lancaster, KY.