We woke at around 7:30 am. Lenny started making phone calls to take care of business with his office, while Lorraine composed some e-mails to friends, and went across the road to the laundromat to wash most of our clothes. We rode our (unloaded) bikes into town to go to the post office, bike shop, library and grocery store. We checked out the Ride for Chiropractic website at the library and read all the great messages that people have added to our guestbook! When we wanted some work done on our bikes, the bike shop owner said, “I know you need it right away. Bike tourists are often a pain in the neck, but you gotta take care of them because they’re living the dream.” He was a real character. We talked to him more about bike touring - he asked us if we had done a lot of touring before and we said we had done smaller trips, but nothing this big. He commented, “It seems like a lot of people who do this are not avid cyclists - it’s like a mid-life crisis trip or something.” We had dinner at El Erradero, a Mexican restaurant recommended by the woman at the motel front desk, and had ice cream at Charley’s Ice Cream Parlor. We even considered taking a second day off, but decided to see how we felt in the morning. Went back to the motel and packed our bikes for the next day.
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