Lancaster, KY —> Mckee, KY (70mi)
Cole:
I overslept again this morning, but did a pretty good job playing it off like an intentional decision to catch up on sleep. I frantically scrambled out the door so I wouldn’t be too far behind schedule (while trying to maintain an outward appearance of calm), then hit the road for more steep, impossibly green, misty, cricket-filled rolling hills through Kentucky. Guard dogs constantly darted out of people’s lawns to chase me down as a I pedaled, but the morning was otherwise uneventful until I ran into Anna in the first town. After a quick mid ride snack (fried apples and peach cobbler) in a local cafe, Anna and I biked most of the way together. I wanted to do some intervals to prep for the collegiate mountain bike race season, so I ended up doing some extra miles into the lush Kentucky mountains before making it to the church that afternoon. I couldn’t have been more excited to rest that evening, and was just settling into a couch to snooze when Maceo and Sean announced they had found a waterfall/cliff jumping spot. I internally sighed, struggled up from the couch, and had an epic evening of scouting out cliff jumps into a gorgeous swimming hole. Worth it. Anna cooked us a childhood-favorite dinner of hers, potato pancakes with apple butter, for dinner, and then I finally got to snooze.