Photo: Late 19th Century courthouse in Pomeroy, County seat of Guillford Co., WA.
We woke to clear skies, and beautiful weather. It’s good to be out of the windy gorge. We had a continental breakfast at the motel, and headed out after Tom repaired flat tire number two. We had a little trouble finding the route out of Walla Walla, but finally found a tunnel under the road that took us out of town. The road east was a long, slight grade, with little traffic, flanked by wheat fields. Massive watering operations, pumping water from wells, keep the wheat green. I wonder what will happen if the wells ever dry up.
We had delicious dinner at a biker bar in Pomeroy, WA, including clam chowder, large chef’s salad, and peach pie alamode for Paul’s desert. Tom began his, “Paul you really eat a lot” comments, but that soon ended when we discovered that we were both losing quite a bit of weight due to all the pedaling. Lesson learned: Eat well, or you'll lose muscle mass after all the fat's gone!
We biked three miles east to the Guillford County Fair Grounds where we camped with access to showers and rest rooms. It was free, and quite nice. A nearby burrow’s braying woke us early the next morning as surely as a rooster might have.
70 miles today, 10.2 MPH average. Not bad considering Tom's flat tire.
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