And on the 7th Day They Rested

July 12th - 7th Day (Not) Biking!

As it turns out, it's very difficult to rest all day in a tent. We were totally stir crazy even though we were tired. We both finished our books - what are we going to read for the rest of the trip?? We tried to go swimming, but it turns out the sand had some sort of vile chemical smell and we had to spend quite awhile in the showers trying to scrub it out of our toenails with hand soap. We were also extremely hungry for hot food, good food, basically any food that we didn't have in our packs. Do you know how torturous it is to have to smell 100 families cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner and to have to nibble away at granola bars? Dinner was particularly agonizing: the mere sound of our cold Spinach and lentils Indian food slopping into our tupperware was enough to make us want to hurl. Then we had to eat it - the Indian food, not the hurl, even though it was pretty similar.

Odds & Ends: Thanks for all your comments on our blog! Emily, you're very perceptive. Katharine does do most of the blogging. Eric, we're taking lots of pictures but we can't upload them until we get back - don't worry, there are LOTS of spandex shots (if you could only smell the pictures...!) Hi Susan! David, I agree there is a lot of inconsistency in the voice narration. Paul, get back to work!

Things we're most glad we packed:

Day 1 - long pajama pants
Day 2 - the trowel, not for burying shit but for hammering in the tent stakes
Day 3 - good air mattresses
Day 4 - sweatshirts
Day 5 - roll up pillows
Day 6 - books

*The above list was created to remind us, when we're hauling all this crap up a huge hill, why we have it.

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