She is not the Good Witch after all - day 8

Just before I fell asleep last night I mentioned to Glenda how we had been blessed with wonderful weather. As any good public safety professional knows you don’t say something like it has been quite or there hasn’t been any rain unless you actually want it to happen. Glenda said “Yeah, there hasn’t been any rain” and that did it. We had rain…ALL DAY!

We pulled into Allendale, SC this evening and I was tired and soaked (thanks G) only to find that the hotel we were scheduled to stay at was shall we say less than up to code. They had a team of cockroaches on staff to carry our bags up…not to mention that I was starving and there wasn’t so much as a Micky D’s to get a bite to eat. So we opted to drive ahead to Orangeburg and tomorrow morning we will double back to ride the route…not practical with the price of gas I know, but I just don’t think I could have slept there.

I had the opportunity to meet a very special family today. A mother who lost her son to ALS 6 years ago read about the Tour in a Savannah newspaper and asked her daughter-in-law to set up a meeting…that she couldn’t explain why but she HAD to meet me. It was an honor to meet this mother and one of her sons and daughter-in-law. She wanted me to have a lap blanket which had belonged to her beloved son. These will be cherished memories of this adventure. Although it gets frustrating out here, especially with all the one-finger salutes and horn-y drivers, a visit like this makes the whole trip worth while.