Spring 1997 - Cincinnati to Yukon
Journals - 4 April 1997
Day 4 - Peebles, OH
4 April 1997 (beautiful, clear sunny day; haze late afternoon; mileage =
20.5) -- X - Got up at about 6:10 and were riding by 7:10. Nicely dodged
the $10 camping fee (which is a joke when nothings works). After
frustrating traffic on 124, I got out my maps from the Ohio atlas and found
back roads! Wow! What a difference. No shoulder, but no cars! Fabulous
riding and scenery. Very nice off of the main road. Saw a big vulture right
in front of us. We were still short on H2O and had run out completely by
the time we got to John M. Stewart's house on Wallace Road (~10:00). Hung
out and rested. A - No one home at John's and the outside water didn't
work, so we ate some food and had an orange hoping it would be refreshing.
I laid on the swing by the babbling brook for a long time (napped a
little). Finally, it got to be too much -- I went down into the water and
washed my hands and face -- it seemed clear and fresh, so I drank a little.
Chris wouldn't do it, so eventually, I got the filter out and filled a 1½
liter bottle. It wasn't too hard. It didn't taste as good filtered as it
did out of my hands straight from the creek. We picked out our camping
site. Hopefully, we'll get to take showers! Tonight, Chris will probably
make the excursion to get food a little later. He's nicely sunburned, so
he'll wait for the sun to calm down a little. X - Christopher, Lynette,
then John and Taylor all came home. We took a quick, 5-minute shower each
which smelled very sulphury. Better than nothing. Got some bottled H2O from
John. Talked about work and went to bed. I never went to get food. We just
ate what we had in the afternoon.
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