Monday, June 26, 2006
Day 3
Vantage to Odessa - 81 miles
Today started out with a big climb out of the Columbia river basin to the farming country of eastern Washington. We seen potatoes, wheat, soybeans and mustard for 70 miles. Odessa is a small town about 4 blocks long. The traffic is bad, about 3 cars per hour.
I rode with a lot of different people today. It was great to hear about them and why they are riding this crazy ride. I think at this point I have ridden with at least half of the people. Some of our riders have toured all over the world and other this is there first time.
We have twin ladies that are teachers in the Seattle area. Their last day of school was on our meeting day. This is the first tour for them and they seem to be having fun stopping at every sign or store.
I spent some time in town talking with the locals. I talked with one boy who told me his grandparents owned the bowling alley but his grandma burned it down for the insurance money. He was in 11th grade with a class of 39.
