Day 5

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Had a great day yesterday.  Pounded out 20 miles in an hour through the morn with a nice tail wind and passed through Mount Union, PA where we grabbed a free spagetti lunch at a lions club while a thunderstorm blew through.  The nice people there were kind enough to give us directions to a nice little bike trail that would cut a few mountians off our route and keep us off the highway. 

After lunch we found that the wind had switched to our faces and traffic was roaring down Rt 22.  With winter debri, fallen limestone, and hardly any shoulder at all with Semitrucks blaring right beside us it took 4.5 hours, 5 intertubes (Eddie had 6 flats I had 1) and all our patches to get the next 10 miles behind us.  Eddie bounced the last 2 miles into Huntingdon, PA with a knot tied around a hole in his intertube (handy little trick if you run out of options!)  If you bike across PA stay off 22, it blows (tires)

We got to town to find out that the bike shop closed 15 min. prior, and as we were sitting there scratching our heads a little punkrocker kid skateboarded up and complemented our bikes.  I asked him if he knew who owned the bike shop and sure enough he did.  5 min later two of the coolest guys between Philly and Pittsburgh walk down the side walk beer in hand.  Paul and Tony of Rothrock Outfitters not only opened up their store and sold us all their 700cc tubes, but gave us some free puncture gunk and bought us a beer to boot.  Great guys with a great store.

After Huntingdon we jumped on that nice little trail and made camp next to a old bridge piling next to the Juanita River.  The evening consisted of delicious spaghetti and whiskey sour (lemon-lime Gatorade makes a decent one..) while listening to the river run.   One of the best campsites i have ever had in my life and I hope to find many more!

 And with that I have a mountian to climb :D