ALMOST FINISHED

Hello everyone,

Hope all is well. I left Kentucky and Tennessee and am now in Virginia. I made it through the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains. The mountains were every bit as as hard as I thought they would be. I am glad to be out of the mountains, but am now dealing with the humidity and heat. Yesterday was very hot and I knew that it would be important to take in additional fluid, so for the first time on my trip, I stopped and purchased three containers of Gatorade and drank all of them.

Unfortunately, my GPS system bit the dust. It stopped working a couple of weeks ago.

I did want to mention that while I was riding in Missouri, my sister, Rosalie Wooten, my neice, Carrie McLiney and her husband, Casey McLiney drove to see me. We had a very nice visit and it was good to see them.

I have now ridden 4000 miles and am getting very close to the end of my journey. Nancy, my greatest supporter, is driving to Yorktown to pick me up. It will be good to see her again. I did get a chance to see her in Clinton and Sedalia; however, these were not rest days so I did not get to spend as much time with her as I would have liked. I really appreciaate the fact that she took over the completion of the constuction project that we had going on at our home. She has been a real trooper in her support of the journey.

Talk again soon,

Larry