Fordham/CitySquash Cross-Country Bicycle Ride
Day 27 Cave In The Rock, Illinois to McDaniels, Kentucky
Fordham Coach Bryan Patterson and several players are cycling from San Francisco to New York to raise money for CitySquash, a not-for-profit after-school enrichment program based in the Bronx at Fordham University.
Coach Patterson is sending reports to DailySquashReport.com from the road.
July 2, 2011 -Cave
in the Rock to McDaniels KY – another State. But I biked down
into Cave in the Rock and just sat outside the café, which even
at this early time was packed. I got funny stares from everyone when I went in to get milk. But a ‘Good morning” to all made them wonder even more who the hell was this foreigner with the Northumbrian accent?!
Took a few pics of the town, seems like we are following Lewis and Clarke backwards, they had been through Cave in Rock, but apparently very cautiously! The sat outside the cafe and literally just watched the world go by. Wonderful.
The van came and down to the ferry for our river ride to Kentucky, and it was free, amazing and joy oh joy! Great little ride over, with Felipe wondering what would happen if we sank! Come on – we’d swim to the bank and hitchhike home, what else.
Kentucky, not a great State sign! Then the rolling hills, actually really beautiful, covered with dense trees, almost encroaching to the road, interspersed with rolling meadows. 85 miles to McDaniels, so we did a relay, although Andriy was on the bike much of the time, with myself, then Raymond did a stint, with Angel and Felipe doing their bit too.
A good ride, nothing exciting, until I got an e-mail (on a break) from Tim telling me that my cousin had donated. Tim lets us know all the time when people donate, which is great. Thanks Ian, he lives in Dallas I think, certainly Texas. So come on John, my son, the beards staying on so just accept that and make the donation, and sis, in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, come on.
A little excitement later when we pass a Harley Davidson three wheeler with the Confederate flag on the back, and Dixie House restaurant, which was for sale – anyone? It was hot 90+ degrees, so we sweated lots, but the relaying helped, and plenty of water.
We got to McDaniels, but couldn’t find a camp site with showers and we needed laundry, all of us! No kidding! Plus camp sites seemed to be full, something about celebrating the week-end. I guess that as a Brit I just didn’t know what was going on!
Yea right! Google camp sites with shower and laundry facilities.
The nearest was a KOA and we had used these before on the Ride, and they were always pretty good. However it was 62 miles, so a quick decision was made that we would take our rest day tomorrow, Sunday, instead of Wednesday.
I think that Andriy and Jack wanted to watch Wimbledon men’s final, which just happened to be Sunday! Also it was decided that we should also visit Louisville, which was 20 miles North of the camp site, and visit the Louisville Slugger baseball bat manufacturer.
So off to the Shephardsville KOA, showers and laundry – heaven! A huge KOA which stayed open late, just as well for us!
As ever the tent up first, then everything else follows. I can tell you the showers are great.
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