Intermission & Apologies

Alright, so I know all of you are feeling SERIOUSLY deprived of up-to-date information of our journey (Jaidip, your late night messages of anguish as you rest your quivering chin on your window sill, staring at the starry night through watery eyes, tear stains streaking your cheeks, wishing that just a word or two would grace the Ride for Rescue page to quench your thirst for adventurous stories...those calls have not fallen on deaf ears). Unfortunately, they will be a little longer coming. We've just been meeting a lot of fun people lately and I haven't been able to tear myself away from their company when in the vicinity of a computer. Libraries are out, too, as we've been riding some pretty long days as of late. I can give you a brief synopsis of the biggest events, though. So here goes:

I last left off at our arrival in Conway, SC to stay with my cousin, Katie. I will pick up there:
Day 25: Aug 5 - Most of this day was spent catching up with blogs and relaxing by the pool at Katie's work. A little beach action with some waves, then more icy beach drinks of pina colada, lava flow, mango something or other, and exploding coconut disaster (the names are a little fuzzy) and food. That night we hung out with Katie's friends at a party at her boyfriend's house...which, by the way, had the most legit beach private residence volleyball court I've had the pleasure of playing on. Food, beverages, and conversations ensued, mostly us repeating to new people (lots of new people) why in the world we were doing this trip and HOW in the world we were managing it. A good night overall...though bed time was a little later then we might have liked...
Day 26: Aug 6 - Wow, today was a late start. And the festivities of the night before left us a little worse for wear than we would have liked...well, I was downright useless. We ended up not getting on the road until about 1:30 pm, leaving us with a rough set of miles ahead of us. Nothing really happened, but it was just ridiculously hot and ridiculously not fun to be on a bike in our current states. That's the price we pay for having fun (good thing we're young and can afford it). That night was spent camping outside the volunteer fire hall in Andrews, NC. I say camping and not sleeping because sleep was pretty much avoiding us that night. It was probably about 93 all night...miserable.
Day 27: Aug 7 - Uggggghhh. Too little time to do this! I'll catch up later. Here's the highlights from the last 6 days:

Staying at firehalls. Very friendly and helpful people.
Jumping off bridges. Very high and luckily pretty wet down below.
Asking a random high schooler at a restaurant if we could sleep at his house rather on the Amtrak platform...success. I have no shame anymore and will ask anyone pretty much anything if it will make my night more comfortable.
We broke 2000 miles...we rule.
Eating PB&J inside a DQ...quizzical looks from the staff and customers.
Seeing Pineapple Express at the theatre with Liz. There is life off the bikes!
Staying at a firehall that apparently knew we were coming without us letting them know...creepy.

So real blogs will come, but probably not until after Key West...just too much fun to be had.
Evan out.