We have certainly been in the gear known as gooooooooo for awhile now. But it has finally paid off, tomorrow will be the last day of our near three month journey. However I will lament about that later, for now I am only concerned with what we have done lately and what you have not seen. From our last update we have battled endless hills which have been anywhere from exactly what we have expected, hard. To something we did not expect, really really hard. The one that put us down the most was a two or three mile grade rising at a minimum of 10 percent. Many other hills were quite harrowing but overall we made it through the Appalachians without too many scratches. Along the way we met many more interesting and nice people, got to see some local music, cruised along the blue ridge parkway, slept in the house of the legendary Cookie Lady (June Curry) and now are back with our parents for the last two days of riding. We also separated from one friend who had to finish two days earlier and to do so put in four days ranging anywhere from 90 to 120 miles. 

memory tats! Mom almost fell for that one.

Ben loves his mom thaaaaat much

Dogs!

peach doughnuts! they tasted like... doughnuts

we debated on a moat as well but decided it would trap us in, not them out

swinging bridge, no more than three people, how about four and their loaded bicycles?

Mary and Frank were on their way back from DC

all of that is memorabilia from bicycle tourists, dating back to '76

it keeps going

Mountain, i say to you: I AM GODZILLA, YOU ARE TOKYO

Shenadoah valley from on high

and going