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June 24th 2004
From Radford to Sugar Grove (Racoon Branch Campground) - which is about
70 miles. I've noticed that my bike 'pedometer' (thing that measures the
mileage we're doing) has lost its receiver unit, so it isn't measuring.
Radford had a remarkably disorganised but very well stocked bike shop. I
found the box that the piece I needed should have been in, but wasn't -
further scurrying around, searching under, over and amongst. No sign of
the contents. The woman in charge of the shop, whose grasp of English was
weak and didn't have much of a clue about cycling, kindly invited me to
get behind the counter and have a rummage, which was a pleasure since bike
shops are such intriguing heaps of goodies, but still no sign of a receiver
unit. So no precise mileages, just the ones from the map (these don't include
our detours due to being lost, trying to find somewhere to sleep, getting
caught in a gyro-auto-circulatory system that whisks us off to the Interstate).
The roads were undulating and pleasant- gentle climbing. Mostly farmland
and small woods. Sugar Grove is minute, the motel seems to be miles away
in the wrong direction, the little place that does usually rent seemed to
be in a state of festive chaos and redecoration, and has no space, so the
National Forestry Service Campground, on our route out to the southwest,
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