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day 23: remember me for…💯
Murphysboro, IL to St. Louis, MO — 101.4 mi, 2540 ft surprise suprise! sarah is back sooner than you thought! unfortunately (as you may have read a few blogs ago), tian took a nasty fall in some gravel, and is taking some time to recover in the car. if you did not get the Fall
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Day 22: sweet tea solves everything
Harrisburg, IL to Murphysboro, IL — 51.6 mi, 1,314 ft Charles made a huge deal about the stars aligning, blah blah blah, but here I am, a driver and a blogger, for the second time 🤯 — you’re not so special. Moving on from the Charles-bashing, let’s talk about more important stuff. Sherie’s French toast
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Day 21: The highest highs and the lowest lows
Madisonville, KY -> Harrisburg, IL – 90.32 mi, 2,533 ft No one said that a cross-country cycling trip would be easy, but man this is ROUGH. I feel like I’ve been tested so many times and after getting hit by an absolute wombo-combo of bad experiences recently, I’ve been in trenches deeper than ever before.
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Day 20: it’s getting hot in here
Bowling Green, KY -> Madisonville, KY – 84.8 miles, 4,439 ft Today, like too many Spokes days, technically started at 12:00am. Many of us share the the night owl quirk of getting more energy as the night wears on, and tonight was no exception. In fact, tonight was particularly exciting because we were sharing the
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Day 19: Festive Learning
Yes, you can stop complaining, I, Ishaq, am indeed back on the blog. Today was out second full day in Bowling Green and the day of our learning festival. Keeping it real with y’all, I dont really know what happened today, I was just along for the ride until someone said,”you know you’re blogging today
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day 18: rolling in (bowling) green 💸
Rest Day in Bowling Green, KY greetings from the lovely town of bowling green, kentucky! 🌳 i’ve given you a biking blog, i’ve given you a learning festival blog, time to round it out with a rest day 😴 (i just checked and sadly there will be no driving blog from me, but i can
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Day 17: BUC-EES
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY to Bowling Green, Kentucky — 32.7 mi, 1,342 ft I woke up and gleefully announced my sleep score of 79 to the other campers. What changed, Ruth? you might be asking. Didn’t you have horrendous sleep for the past two weeks? How did your sleep score triple in a single
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Day 16: Kentucky Fried Chicken
Liberty, KY to Mammoth Cave National Park, KY – 88.6 mi, 5,465 ft Today was our longest ride to date — 88 miles — and I woke up in the morning not looking forward to it. It was going to be my third straight day cycling and my left knee had been bugging me more
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Day 15: Choose Your Battles
I have gotten into the (bad) habit of using fellow Spokies as alarms. I woke up and saw Ramona still in bed. I fell back asleep and repeated this process 4 times before Greta (bless her) barged into the room, and woke everyone up. Greta soared up the list of top Spokes drivers today because
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Day 14: through the fairy forest
Hazard, KY to London, KY – 70.7 miles, 5293 ft If Virginia was Big A mountains, then Kentucky is the fairy forest. The mountain we climbed just a few days ago -> If you move away from the towns, gas stations and highways, you can take the much calmer single lane roads. The roads go
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