It was nice to wake up and be able to eat our cereal and milk right away without having to worry about looking for a warm place to eat. We had a table in the library of the fellowship hall that made it even more enjoyable. It didn't take us too long to get packed and say our goodbyes to Barry. We were on the road just a little after 8 and were hoping to at least get over 60 miles today. The hills became more frequent and longer, which was expected as we remembered NW Georgia was hilly from the last tour. The good news was that the sun came out today! When we started off this morning, Atlanta was less than 75 miles away and was only about 22 miles away by the end of day. Not that that was of any importance to us as we planned on avoiding that area because of the high amount of traffic. We also had quite a few suggestions from people that we've met to steer clear of that area just for that reason. At some point before we made it to the town of Griffin, where we would stop for lunch, my bottle of sunscreen fell off my bike; lost somewhere on the side of the road. A little bit of a pain, but not that big of a problem since it was getting close to being empty and it will most likely be cold enough for the rest of the trip to be living in our pants and jackets and not need much sunscreen. We planned on having lunch at Pizza Hut, but when we got there, we found out it wasn't worth it- they had no salad bar!! Although it was only 5 bucks for the buffet, without a salad bar, there was just no point. I hope that it was just this Pizza Hut and that Pizza Hut's everywhere aren't changing the way they do things. So, since we still wanted to have a buffet so that we wouldn't have to have dinner later, we headed over to the Chinese Buffet instead. It really did hit the spot! For the price of a buffet, it almost makes more sense to do that when it's cold than to go someplace like Subway, especially for the fact that the buffet serves as 2 meals. The hills continued as we meandered our way over to Fayetteville. The sun warmed us up quite a bit, but as it got later that didn't last long. Upon getting into Fayetteville, we had a question on which road we should take and just happened to see a lady out on a walk. I asked her for directions and had a nice little conversation with her. A very sweet lady. She had asked where we were staying tonight, and said that she would have invited us over if she wasn't jumping on a plane to go to NY for her grandson's 1st bday. Such kind people in this world! Once we knew where we were going, we headed through town and took a little break at Dunkin Donuts. We saw that there were quite a few churches listed along the road that we were going to be on, so we decided to keep riding. We ended up continuing on farther than we thought, an extra 13 miles or so. It worked out well because we made it to Fairburn, which was a strange little town. Quite a few of the businesses had bars on all the windows which was a little unsettling. After riding around town, we looked for church for a while, but couldn't find any with cars. Somehow we found one out of town just a little ways that had a fenced in area in back to camp in. We called my Grandma to have her check the weather to see if it was going to rain or snow, but the chances of precipitation was minimal so we figured we'd be ok. So, we figured we would be ok without an overhang. By the time that we got the tent set up, it had gotten really cold. Since we didn't have to make any dinner after going to the buffet for lunch, we just got right in our sleeping bags. Tonight we decided to try zipping them together, which actually helped today. Sometimes we end up being too cold because of the big opening between us, but tonight it seemed to work ok. It was cold enough that in order to type my blog, I had to be completely inside my sleeping bag. Hopefully it will get a little warmer tomorrow, but if not we have been expecting the ride back to NY to be a cold one. We ended up with 65.73 miles today!
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