Gary's Bike Ride

Didn't post yesterday....sorry.... I will try to catch you up. Sunday morning we woke at 7:30 fixed breakfast, broke camp. Only Zoie is awake.Drove 20 miles back to Albia to hit route 34 for pap to start today's journey. Looking for a laundromat again today.
Once we dropped pap off, we headed to Ottumwa, had to backtrack for pap because the road is too rough and congested for him to go through town. Dropped hi. Off and found laundromat, when we were finished we caught Gary at mile marker 324, Pilot truck stop/subway. His back light is not working, off to Wal-Mart for rear light. So far he has done 89 miles. Pumped for his 100 miles for today which will put him in Illinois. Got his stuff at Wal-Mart, headed for Illinois and along the road I see a biker that looks like our biker, uh,oh, it is him and he has a flat tire, poor guy I guess we should help him out. Put bike on rack and he is number that he has to ride into Illinois with us. I said it's only 8 miles, use your other bike so he did. He went 4 miles and had a flat tire on his other bike. So he decided to walk his bike across the Mississippi river bridge and I am to take a picture of him entering Illinois. I can't get very close to the bridge because of construction. So we park and the kids and I trudge through the construction site to get a picture of pap. Good thing it is Sunday and no workers. Now it is 8:00 p.m.. No bike shop.......no camp site, off we go to the closest wal-mart. Pioria. We pull in after 10:00. Kids are asleep, I'm exhausted and I know pap is also. I climb from the drivers seat to the bed. Good night everyone, see you in the morning.