We woke up nice and warm in the youth building. Brother Johnny stopped by to make sure everything was good before he headed out for the day. After leaving the church, we took the old back road that the church was on, which was the old main highway. There was a beautiful view from the pull out on the way down. We could see the town of Stanford (which we already knew was pretty close because we could see the lights from the town a few miles away from the hill the church was on last night). It was a nice long descent- the fun kind where it weaves and curves along the hill side. We ended up doing about 5 or 6 miles before getting into town. As I was riding along, I found a rose face down in the gutter on side of the road. It looked like someone just chucked it out of their car. Since no one was enjoying it like that, I picked it up- figured I might as well enjoy it before it dies. Not too long after getting into town, we found a McDonalds to look up where the grocery store was. Looking up where things are in town sure saves us time and a lot of riding around in circles trying to find things. I bought some cereal and some more milk at the Walmart nearby, and we ate at tables outside of Sonic, which is something that we've done on a few occasions throughout the past year. Usually they aren't open yet, so it is not a problem. It was already around 10 by the time we got there this time, so they were open. After asking, they didn't mind at all if we used one of their tables-- it is just so nice to use a table for breakfast instead of sitting on the ground somewhere. We had a tail/ side wind today, so we were pretty happy about that. While the sun was nice and warm, the wind was not. Joey and I had a very laid back morning because we knew it would be a bit shorter of a day because we had a warm shower's host set up in Lexington! Although part of the adventure is to not know where we will be sleeping that night, sometimes the opposite is very nice. It makes everything so carefree as you ride knowing that you will be inside where it is warm! The scenery today was just beautiful. We rode through the country side with rolling hills, and farm land surrounding us. There were a few bigger hills when we got to the Kentucky River. After that bit of climbing, we made it to Nicholasville, one of the "suburbs" (more like a small town though) of Lexington. We ate our favorite "Voila" lunch at the picnic table outside library, before going inside to do some computer work for an hour. I felt very productive for once, we don't always find library computers like that! Usually they are very slow, but not these ones! After our library break, we only had about 10 more miles to get to Wayne's house. That ten miles was the best part of the whole day---we had a great tailwind pushing us right along!! Although we missed the first turn we planned on taking to get there, we could easily find our way to his house by taking another road. On that new road, which was a 4 lane divided road, with NO shoulder at all, we encountered an individual who had a big problem with ROAD RAGE. And the worst part is that it was by an adult. He came up behind us in the lane we were in--and there was NO vehicles in the other lane or anywhere nearby. The man started beeping like crazy like we were "in his way- and we were supposed to get off the road" and then came only inches from hitting both of us as he buzzed by. This was absolutely unnecessary. I could have MAYBE understood a little if there was a whole bunch of traffic- but there wasn't. Not only was the man acting in a completely ignorant way, but he was doing it with his whole family in the car-- kids included. What a great example to set for your kids. If only we could have gotten the license plate number or a picture of him almost hitting us, we would been able to do something about it. Joey and I were both infuriated that someone would do something like that. What is this world coming to- that was such a ridiculous thing. Joey almost caught back up to the guy at the lights, but just missed him by a tenth of a mile because the light changed. For the rest of the ride, we were very upset- there was no reason for that---that man was WAY out of line. It's even more sad that it was a full grown adult acting that way- in front of his kids! So sad. Well anyways, enough venting. Knowing that we had a Warm Shower's host to go to made us feel much better as we always get excited to meet new people. Thank goodness for that because it helped us get over the incident pretty quickly. When we got to Wayne and Sandra's house, we gave them a call- telling them that we were here, or at least at the house we thought was theirs. We had found the right place and were greeted with two smiling faces. It is always so much fun meeting our host because there is always so much to talk about-- even though we are all complete strangers. There are always stories to share and easy conversation-- nothing else like it! The four of us (well 5 if you include their cute little Jack Russel- Darla!!) chatted for a while, snacked on some tortilla chips, veggies and hummus, before Joey and I each took a shower. I had so much fun playing with Darla-she was just so cute, energetic, and a lap dog, too! We got to enjoy an amazing home cooked dinner of meat, mushrooms, quinoa salad, potatoes, homemade rolls (my favorite), and wine. Such a fun evening with Wayne and Sandra. For dessert they asked if we liked ice cream-- of course!!! They were going to share some of the ice cream they had in the fridge, but instead decided to do something even better!! Wayne and Sandra took us to a frozen yogurt bar that one of their friends owns. Nothing to say but amazingness!!! The first one we ever went to was in FL with the family- since then I've been dying to go to another one-- and there we were enjoying frozen yogurt!! These places are just so neat-I don't know how they are just popping up everywhere now, I would have thought that this would have come about long ago, what a great idea! I can't wait to go to another one! When we got back to the house, we took a look at the maps (luckily they had an Ohio map, since we somehow didn't have one). They even printed out a map of an enjoyable route to go through the Lexington area! We went to be happy to be sleeping in a nice comfy bed. A fantastic day, yet again! It was a shorter day today of 47.44. miles
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