Often on our trips we a blessed with small gems that just
make a day wonderful. Last night when
checking into our motel, the clerk told us that the only options for breakfast were 2 miles west when the coffee shop opened at 8 a.m. or 13 miles east at a
McDonald's that would require we not take our planned country road route. Neither option was appealing for we like
early starts and country roads. The next
morning we noticed that the gas station/Subway restaurant across the highway
was open. Unfortunately, the Subway part
of the place did not open until 9 a.m. However, a nice woman told us to walk 1 block
west and go to Johnny Wilkinson’s place because he makes breakfast
sandwiches. Johnny not only made us a
great breakfast but also sandwiches to go.
Never did a processed ham and cheese sandwich ever taste so good when we
stopped for lunch. We did not have any
lunch during our first 2 days so this was especially sweet.
Our ride on the country roads was very pleasant with
virtually no traffic and pastoral scenery.
Our only complaint was that while we had 4 fast downhill rides in quick
succession, each of those down hills was followed by a short but steep climb.
We were happy to sacrifice the down hills as the terrain flattened out. About 95 percent of today’s ride was on
country roads.
Since our planned ride was relatively short, we decided to
go off route and visit the Athena Winery about 5 miles south of our route. There Ruth, one of the owners told us that
they started growing grapes 13 years ago and it took a while for them to
produce good wine. As we were leaving
the winery, Jeff noticed that he had his second flat tire. So far he is getting
one every other day…not a good thing.
While at the winery we found 2 entertaining birds. They had build a nest right next to the
parking lot and when we got close the one on the nest would spread her trail
feathers and the other would hop away and lie on its back and flap its wings as
if it were injured. Ruth told us that
these birds have been building their nest in the same spot for years. You would think that they would move away
from all the commotion of the parking lot but I guess they just like to people
watch.
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