This morning I was up at 5:30 even though I was up early yesterday. I had started getting up at five for the past month in preparation for the trip but hoped to be able to sleep in this morning but couldn't.
No breakfast duty for any crew today so I made instant oatmeal, my regular breakfast when not in tour. I made and drank three pots of tea to rehydrate from yesterday's ride.
Today my agenda was to go into town to do laundry, eat some lunch, and pick up some hardware that I could use to build a water bottle holder that can hold three water bottles. Water was in short supply yesterday and I was in desperate need of water for the last part of the day.
The nice lady at the RV park offered to do my laundry so that was one less thing to do today. I follow the others in the group into town and looked around while they did their laundry.
We stopped into the Fields store to resupply. I picked up an OFF clip on mosquito repellant to stop from being eaten alive while sitting around at camp. While Matt was at Fields for the first time he bought some beef nuggets which are kind of like beef jerky.
For lunch we looked on trip advisor to see what was good and decided on the Bannok Cafe for lunch and again later for dinner. The cafe uses Bannok, which is fried bread, to use for buns on hamburgers, sandwiches, and sweet deserts.
On the way back to camp after lunch I stopped by the home hardware to pick up some nuts, bolts, and some metal bracing so I could Magyver together a water bottle holder. I was successful with the help of Tom who you will see pictured below. He asked me about what I was doing and told him the details. Thanks Tom.
Tomorrow my group makes breakfast and cleans up. We bike only 89 km into Knutsford so if we leave late we won't get into camp too late.
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| Tom at Home Hardware in Merrit. Thanks for your help! |
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| Matt loading up with jerky in Fields |
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| Water bottle holder created to prevent dehydration |
