We woke at 5:45 am and started biking at 7:15 am. We went over 3 mountains today with long, steep climbs and steep, twisting descents. In certain areas, the side of the road was littered with garbage. Appliances, broken-down cars and other junk surrounded the homes and was cast into nearby streams. Amazingly, there were many well-kept houses interspersed between the junkyards and falling-down shacks. Most people had a downtrodden way about them. Lenny says that poverty is a state of mind – a belief system that keeps a person from achieving his or her own greatness. We stopped in Bevinsville for Lenny to go to post office. When he used a credit card, the postal clerk mentioned that it was the first time this year that someone paid with a credit card! We ate our lunch, loitering outside the Shop & Save store. We had planned to go to Breaks Interstate Park, but the motel in Elkhorn City was much less expensive. We ate at Rusty Fork Cafe, stopped at the ATM, and bought groceries in town.
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