The Queen City

We both just completed the longest ride of our lives. We knocked out 85 miles at 17.1 mph. That is absolutely ridiculous. We we averaged that for 40 in the county we would be stoked. It is great being down here in the flat lands. Lets get back to this morning; Lori gave us a ride out of town to Old Greensboro Rd. a favor we are forever greatful for, yeah that and the biscuits and gravy she made for us this morning. Perhaps, the best host I have ever had. I would say this may have been the best bike ride have ever had. We were out in the country with no cars, a far cry from 220 of the past couple days. We rolled throught Lexington (home of Hokie wildcat quarterback Cory Holt), and then on down to Salsbury. We had a great lunch at Matson's. I throughly enjoyed the country fried steak and Judah ordered a pound of chopped barbacue. We put down 1 lb hamburgers yesterday and he figured the BBQ would be no problem. Little did he know they would give him about 5.5 lbs and we left we a large container of BBQ. 20 miles down the road, after JB's lunch had almost come up twice we got rid of the remaining 3 lbs. At this time we were in Kannapolis, NC where they have Dale Earnhart Blvd., guess what the road number is: 3. Well, at this time we still had about 30 miles to Anna's house so we pushed on. As we came into Charlotte we passed Lowe's Motor Speedway, home of the Coca Cola 600, pretty exciting stuff. After that, well we had to roll through 20 miles of suburban hell, mall after mini-mall after mall. Not the best riding conditions. But we finally got into Charlotte and made our way to my friends Anna and Becca's house. We had a fanstastic cookout, and we got to burn shit in their backyard, that is what I call entertainment.

Anyway, tonight is the True Blood season premiere so I am pretty excited about that. I know some of you may be wanting a little more excitement from the two of us wild men, but you try riding 85 miles and then going out and getting wild. So far the hospitality has been great, everyone has been awesome, you know, putting us up and feeding two hungry fellas. Tomorrow we are only riding 15 miles over to Lake Wylie. It will be nice to get some R&R and even out this jersey tan. We will check in soon, have a great one.

The king kool lounger,
Steve