I probably ought to be posting more, but I have been very lazy so far. It can be very disorienting living out of a bag and sleeping in a new place every day. This and the fact that we have been in the middle of nowhere for the last few weeks have made it so many of us do not know what day it is or what is going on in the outside world.

Right now I am in a library in the wonderful town of Lockport in the western part of New York. I am in a beautiful public library building on one of the public computers. Libraries are the most common place for us to find the internet, and often the towns we stay in are so small that the libraries are within walking distance to where we are staying. Tonight we are staying in the basement of a gigantic church. When we walked in there were cookies waiting for us, which are always greatly appreciated.

The ride today would have been great it it hadn't poured for two hours around lunch time. These last few weeks it has rained on us just about every day. Riding in the rain is not very fun, it gets cold, and if you are riding behind someone else and open your mouth you get a tasty mixture of dirt and water sprayed into your mouth. While it has rained most days, most of the time it doesn't rain the whole day, and we still get non-rainey parts and all of the fun that comes with it. For example today we passed a fresh fruit stand at a farm that was selling just picked cherries for really cheap. I bought a bag full of them and ate all of the way to the church.

It is not time for me to go to dinner, tonight like most nights members of the church congregation have provided a pot-luck dinner for us. I hope that everyone has a happy fourth of July tomorrow. We will be in Niagara Falls, relaxing for a change.

-John R
July 3rd 2008