This was the sweet bedroom we stayed in the night before. Tim and I were going to paper-rock-scissors for the bed, but I almost weaseled my way into getting it all to myself:
While I was posting all of those entries he woke up, and since he let me borrow his shoe covers, which kept my feet nice and toasty dry on the rainy ride into Charlottesville, I let him have the bed. The couch was comfy enough, especially after I downed another Carly.
We decided to spend the day in downtown Charlottesville, kind of exploring the city, and then take a short day up to Afton, VA to stay with the cookie lady.
The downtown looked pretty cool, even though there was a lot of construction. They had a pedestrian mall, which I think every downtown area needs.
We decided to swing by a bike shop, Blue Bell Bike shop, in order to get some shoe covers, and rain pants just in case we get hit with the same shitty weather we had the preceding few days. The bike shop was generally worthless for a frugal cyclist, but they did have rain pants relatively cheap, and some shoe covers. We got lost trying to find the shop, and lo and behold, the forecast of a sunny day turned into cold drizzling. Just when we were unprepared for it.
I tried to keep a positive attitude, but really all I wanted to do is get the fuck out of Charlottesville.
Once out of the city and off of HWY 250, it was a glorious day.
We got our first glimpse of the mountains.
And rode on. Since we got so lost so often in downtown C-ville (that's what they call it) we didn't make it out until late, and decided to not push it to Afton and stayed at a nearby campsite.
This was the sweet bedroom we stayed in the night before. Tim and I were going to paper-rock-scissors for the bed, but I almost weaseled my way into getting it all to myself:
While I was posting all of those entries he woke up, and since he let me borrow his shoe covers, which kept my feet nice and toasty dry on the rainy ride into Charlottesville, I let him have the bed. The couch was comfy enough, especially after I downed another Carly.
We decided to spend the day in downtown Charlottesville, kind of exploring the city, and then take a short day up to Afton, VA to stay with the cookie lady.
The downtown looked pretty cool, even though there was a lot of construction. They had a pedestrian mall, which I think every downtown area needs.
We decided to swing by a bike shop, Blue Bell Bike shop, in order to get some shoe covers, and rain pants just in case we get hit with the same shitty weather we had the preceding few days. The bike shop was generally worthless for a frugal cyclist, but they did have rain pants relatively cheap, and some shoe covers. We got lost trying to find the shop, and lo and behold, the forecast of a sunny day turned into cold drizzling. Just when we were unprepared for it.
I tried to keep a positive attitude, but really all I wanted to do is get the fuck out of Charlottesville.
Once out of the city and off of HWY 250, it was a glorious day.
We got our first glimpse of the mountains.
And rode on. Since we got so lost so often in downtown C-ville (that's what they call it) we didn't make it out until late, and decided to not push it to Afton and stayed at a nearby campsite.
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