Day 17: To Hurley, Ms
Wednesday February 17, 2010, 55 miles (89 km) - Total so far: 663 miles (1,067 km)
We are all sleeping indoors tonight! Sara has a colleage who is from Hurley and has a lot of family here still. We showed up thinking we'd be making a patch of grass home for the night, but they are allowing us to sleep on the floor. They also made us hot dogs and hamburgers, had chips and cookies, and all sorts of drinks. They are wonderful people.
Other than the awesomeness of tonight, today was rather uneventful. Ryan and I kept a pretty steady pace over 14 mph for almost the whole day, which felt great. Had a few hills and some headwinds but nothing crazy. There was a pretty large bridge right outta the gates this morning. The day warmed up quick and stayed nice for the whole day. Tomorrow sounds like its going to be more of the same.
Oh yea, we also got chased by a bunch of dogs, lots of loose ones in Alabama. This one was makin a b line for us, and I slammed on my brakes(we were doin almost 20 mph) and Ryan almost rear ended me. Other than that, the dogs weren't very exciting.