The Mounatin, The Frat House, Dixie Caverns

What can I say??? This day was absolutely gorgeous. The uphill sucked but there was so much to look at it really didn't matter much. I just chugged a lot of hammer gel fuel and burned to the top. The best was the downhill at the end, where we dropped almost 2000 feet in a mile or two. I had to break to keep it at 30-35mph, 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and almost went off road more than once. Awesome.

All said and done we still made a 50 mile day, which pretty good when a lot of it was uphill. We decided after the mountain to keep riding on to Lexington, home of Washington and Lee University. It's a small campus but fun, and graduation was the following day so the town pretty busy. We ended up staying with Chris, a member of the Chi Psi fraternity.

And the frat house was awesome. They had a full game room with arcade style games and a huge screen TV, free sodas and powerade in the kitchen, and topped it off with a stripper pole in the basement. Awesome. They also happened to have a Razorback hat in the computer den that somebody found in a dumpster and decided to save. I think we were meant to be there... This conviction was strengthened even more by the fact that I found a strip steak in the fridge of the guy's room we stayed in. He had moved out the week before and the steak was set to expire the next day. It was fate. I hauled that steak 70 miles the next day, keeping it on ice in my handlebar bag until the next evening.

We ended up right outside of Christiansburg, the last location on our first map, at a camping spot called Dixie Caverns. We talked to the people and they ended up letting us stay for free because we were biking for Iris' charity, so that was phenomenal. I cooked the shit out of the steak that night, despite the fact that it was already turning.. Luckily, I had picked up some spices the day earlier so I just smothered the teak in garlic seasoning and cardamom. Awesome.