ADIN, CA - I was up and set to get a full day in, until I got on the bike. Right away my left knee started killing me. I'd been babying the other one the day before, letting the left do the burden of the pedaling, a mistake I'll not repeat. Even with an ACE bandage on it, every pedal stroke stung. I picked off the easy 7 miles of flat going around the lake but pulled off into the campground at the bottom of the pass out.
I screwed around doing a little bike eminence, eating, finding a pay phone to use the PocketMailer. Mostly just wasting the cooler, calmer part of the day. Around noon, when both the wind and heat were finally starting to get bad, I got moving.
As long as I took it slow the knee was okay. The thought that kept me going was dinner at the frosty in Adin. Several hours and whole lot of pedaling on some narrowly shouldered stretches of 139 and I was there. And let me tell you: greasy food and a strawberry milkshake are the best kind of cycling food I've found.
From here I'm going to try to get into Klamath Falls day after tomorrow, knee willing. Then I'm kind of thinking I'd like to see how far north I can get, maybe up to Seattle. I've got a plane ticket out of Portland on the 9th of July so as long as I'm there for that... well, it's a wide open road.
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