I had a rest day today as I drove my bike to a shop. Yesterday it wouldn’t shift right all day and kept skipping teeth on the sprocket. The bike shop mechanic said my chain was stretched so much that the chain didn’t mesh with the sprocket anymore. He put on a new chain and a new sprocket cassette in the back and it works perfectly now. He said this chain is worn so much it looks like it went across the U.S.A!

Everybody else had a 70-mile day with one big hill in it. It was nice and sunny, but not hot and there was a nice tailwind all-day.

We are in Lincoln City tonight at Devil’s Lake RV Park, a nice place. Kathy’s brother and sister-in-law joined us for four days and Tom Zilverberg joined us tonight for the rest of the trip, so for the next couple of days we will have eight in our group. Kathy’s brother and wife are staying in a motel and Cliff and Kathy are going to join them. Cliff was all excited because now he has a television to watch the first NBA championship game.

We are officially 1/4 of the way done with our trip. Seems like we just got started yesterday. I always am sad when these bike trips are over, they are very enjoyable. We met a guy a couple of days ago that was riding for four months straight. He had no plan where he was going, just decided in route each day. He doesn’t even know at the beginning of the day where he is going to camp at the end of the day.