Day 8: Rode from Buchanan, VA to Blacksburg, VA, about 60 miles. Rode with the father daughter pair to just before Blacksburg. They continued further on from there, trying to keep a fast pace to get to Seattle in one fewer week than I'm going to San Francisco. I stayed in Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech, with Seth, a friend of a friend. Seth had an awesome meal prepared for me, and has a cool house set-up with a bar that he built. Earlier in the day, we stopped for lunch in a small town called Catawba, only to find that the one restaurant in town wasn't open. Luckily, my friend James, who was driving back from his own bike tour from State College, PA to Burlington, VT, and an old friend from my Pacific Coast tour who inspired my trip after he crossed the country last year, planned to meet up with us at our lunch stop. He offered to shuttle us to a nearby gas station serving cheap pizzas, saving us a few miles of extra riding.
Day 8: Took my first rest day since leaving Arlington. Walked around Blacksburg and the Virginia Tech campus and ate a lot of food. There is an awesome vegetarian restaurant named Gillie's where I ate both breakfast and dinner. As an aside, I have found the Shenandoah region to be incredibly beautiful. I have been impressed by awesome mountains and rolling hills and valleys, and the small college towns along the way. I skipped a planned stop in Charlottesville, which I hope to visit someday, but Blacksburg and Lexington are both exceptionally beautiful. The only downside to this beauty is difficult cycling terrain, but hopefully it pays off later on in the mountainous west.
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