Roy treated us to a giant breakfast in the morning. Real oatmeal with honey and pecans, farm fresh eggs with mushrooms and red peppers, and toast coated with home made fig preserves. Once again, awesome.
We also found out that Roy had changed his schedule and was going to ride with us in the morning. He was going to show us the back roads so we didn't have to ride along on the bigger highway, fantastic. We've spent plenty of time on bigger highways and any time we can get off them is more than welcomed.
However, Roy was still on his zippy little road bike, and we were still on our loaded touring bikes. We had a slight tail wind, and enjoyed the good weather and a riding companion.
To save some energy, we dropped in behind Roy and caught his draft for miles and miles. He blazed along at 20-21mph and we hustled to keep up. After about an hour, we cried 'uncle' and Roy backed off to a speed that was much more comfortable for us.
Fifty-five or so miles into the day, we reached Fayetteville which was to be the end of Roy's ride with us. Gail drove up to retrieve Roy, we went through another round of good-byes and thank yous, and set off alone.
We finally got back onto the Adventure Cycling route, after leaving it many many miles ago. It was only a few miles before we met another rider going the opposite direction. His name was Hiro and he's on a trip from San Fransisco to Miami. He's most of the way there! We told him that he was quickly approaching the flat and smooth roads of the southeast and wished him well.
The day ended up being a lot longer than we had anticipated, and eventually we reached Buescher State Park as the sun was setting.
Since today was long, and the forecast for tomorrow is predicting winds of 20-30mph with gusts to 40mph, we are going to take a shorter day and go to Austin, TX.
Happy days on the road.
Day 43 - 99.00 miles
Trip to Date - 2323.42 miles
Coast to Coast - 1320.97 miles
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