Day 11

We woke up, packed and got ready to make our way out of town. After spending the night with nothing creepy happening I felt bad for being so nervous around him. He may have been weird and crazy, but after talking with him all night he's really just a dude who's slightly unstable, trying to get his life together and has a huge love for the lazy lifestyle and travel. So after everything I identified with him in the end. He loved travel, and couch surfing and all the wondrous things that come adventure and freeloading, things that not so long ago were the very basis of my survival hitchhiking cross country. Upon leaving Bob gave us his contact into and told us to let him know how things are going.

We made our way riding through New Castle PA. Nothing special, except we stopped in a bike shop to get cleats. I had bought shitty Shimano road cleats, and they were chipping, and getting gook from the road caught in the making it impossible to clip in.The shop wasn't anything exciting, but the guy was super nice. I really enjoy stopping in bike shops. He helped switch out my cleast and change pedals, and gave us all sorts of advice. We signed his wall of cross country riders, and just hung around for a while.

Riding on, we came a few miles from the OH boarder and it was getting hot and I was getting tired. So George said he would buy me ice cream when we got into OH, if we rode on and got there today. When we came to the Ohio line we stopped to take pictures with the big "Welcome to Ohio" sign. I got a nice picture of my beer belly hanging out of my tight little cycling clothes. So we have finally made across and entire state, in hot weather, up and down mountain and with various other problems. We stopped at Dairy Queen and they don't sell flavored ice cream. You don't sell flavored ice cream? I am reminded why I never ate Dairy Queen back home and always bent to Carol's or Friendly's. George got a blizzard and we rode a bit further to another ice cream place and got a big strawberry ice cream cone, it was, to say the least, amazing.

We finished up in Ellsworth OH, and just make camp and slept on the side of the road in a little grass patch.