Day 10 - Mineral to Charlottesville, VA - 60 Miles

Spent the night of day 9 in Mineral, Virginia.  Very beautiful.  Scary motel - sleazy but cheap.

Got up at 5:30, breakfast 6:30. On the road at 7:00.  Absolutely beautiful ride with lots of tiring hills - still managed to average 13 mph.  Unfortunately, in the last 9 miles the hills got nasty and my plans to visit Monticello were foiled by millions of Memorial Day tourists.  I couldn't bear to go in with all those idiots. 

Made 55 miles today with all those hills.  Actually 60 with trying to find a motel.

Tried to find a new book, but the book store I went to was all popular paperbacks.  God!  This town has 47,000 people, but it makes me sick.  I guess the rough and tumble big city is far better than big town idiocy.  Who knew - ? - I like New York.

Charlottesville is covered with hills - nasty hills.  I'm still worried about the mountains.  We'll see tomorrow - biggest hill day so far.