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(Day 20) Ahead of schedule? How did it happen?

We got a good start and were in and out of the Safeway in good time. Then the tire problems started. Brad had a flat on his back tire and later I had a slow leak on my front. While we were stopped for Brad's flat the guy from the Porches place on Hwy 30 drove by waving, it took us a second to figure out where we'd seen him before.

The other thing that took us a minute to figure out was why all the truckers were honking and waving at us. Without realizing it we were back on Hwy 97, they'd seen us on the way out of Klamath Falls and we'd been waving at them earlier.

It'd been a while since we had a shower, so that became the reward for getting to Bend early. The KOA was right on the edge of town so we put down the five bucks each and took turns showering, we even washed some clothes. As we were sitting there this mt. biker bro walked up and started talking to us. He was recommending we take Hwy 26 because it was more scenic, had less traffic but was just a little longer. We also talked about food, the one idea he had that Brad and I both loved was eating at Wendy's, they usually have an all you can eat salad bar. We decided to take Hwy 20 instead of scenic, we wanted to get the hell out of Oregon. The day before we'd done the math and determined Chicago wasn't going to happen by July 25th. Brad got a hold of Erin and she's going to move her tickets back. But in honor of his good idea we decided to go find a Wendy's and raid their salad bar. Unfortunately the Wendy's we went to did not have a salad bar nor did the Carl's Jr. next door. We settled for Wendy's and enjoyed the Biggie Value Menu.

The plan with towns is get as far out of them as you can before you camp. There's less traffic, more places to camp and less people to cause problems. With this in mind we sped out of town, ridding past sundown we picked up 20 miles before we camped.

andrew

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