Day 5 - Resting in Spokane.

Spokane, Washington

Lovely, lovely rest day today. I slept in to a late 6:30 this morning, after waking up at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30.... But it still felt good. We went out to breakfast at a tiny little diner with one woman of incredible talent managed the long bar table by herserlf, taking orders, making the greasy greasy eggs, bacon, hashbrowns and pancakes, taking checks, and all the while telling us about her hometown New Orleans. It was pretty impressive. After a walk to the bike shop and the local Safeway to load up on fruit, I came back to the dorms for a while to work on blogging. A professional masseuse was coming in for extremely discounted massages, and when a spot opened up, I took it. $35 for an hour, and with my mother’s encouragement had a relaxing afternoon. It was so necessary, and worked out all the muscle knots and a nerve I’d been having problems with.

I’ve definitely discovered that the best thing to do on a rest day or long evening is to walk around and stretch out the legs. After a breif thunderstorm, a bunch of us went out to a Mexican restaurant and then crashed for the night.