Day 7

Flat Tires Ruin my day

Miles Biked:65

Thank God we are out of Hazleton. After a day off in the most depressing city I have ever been to, we hit the road for Sunbury. Poor Hazleton. You can tell at one point it was kind of a cool place. It has def. lost its way. There are stores, but no one in them, there are buildings, but you can tell the top floors are unoccupied. It is slowly decaying into a ghost city and two days was way too much. (12 hours is too much).

Today I received my first middle finger! Normally that would piss me off, but on the road, i was almost expecting it. I give all the credit to my riding partner Pat Muha who loves to sit in the middle of the road. Some angered rusty car passed us, flipped the bird, and I had a tingle of joy in my heart. I wonder how many we'll see this summer.

After coming down from the high hills of Hazleton we passed through a city that really angered me....Ashton. They built the city on a huge hill with main street going straight up. Maybe it is because I am a lazy piece of crap.....but I ponder how people find the energy to walk around. After Hazleton we got lost for a few miles. I swear that no matter who Corey rides with they get lost.....I was with Corey at the time.

Apparently delirium sets in on day 7. Pat and I decided to sing while entering townships. While through Shenandoah, we sang the beautiful Shenandoah song......the one about the mountain range. Then we changed the name of the "I would walk one thousands miles" into "I would bike four thousand miles....I would bike four thousand more, just to be the men who biked four thousand miles to San Francisco" Apparently Northeast Penn just doesn't understand our music.

One random thought I am having.......coal truckers hate the world as much as I thought coal truckers might.

We had a nice lunch and then God decided to hate me. About 15 miles outside of Sunbury I had a flat tire.....which turned into two flat tires....which turned into 6 flat tires! The Gold star of the day goes to Beth. After the first flat tired I shouted out to her if she minded stopping to help me fix my tire. "It will only take a minute"

An hour and a half later I am at the YMCA in Sunbury. I haven't really explored the town, but according to the people in Hazleton, it is just like that....can't wait to see what is here! 95 mile day tomorrow.......wonder if I'll survive.