Happy fourth of July! Started out tired and sore from yesterday, and I was determined to take it easy today. There was a nice bit of cloud cover and most the roads were quite light on traffic. There were a few highway miles including part of the 6.5 miles I had to redo from backtracking to a hotel yesterday. I stopped in Buchanan for lunch where they do a lot of River kayak operations, and there was an interesting diverse group of people from hipster kayak clients to rural locals.
Humidity was unbelievable today and I was soaked in sweat most of the day which is what I think led to my phone crapping out near the end of my ride just as thunderstorms were rolling in and I was trying to find my way to my hotwire hotel. The phone was working, but just enough to give me wrong directions and stress me out a ton as I’m frantically going as fast as I can in possibly the wrong direction. I got it sorted and was able to find the dirtiest most dilapidated hotel I’ve ever stayed at. At least it has a shower and aircon, and that’s what I needed. There was a thunderstorm tonight, but people were letting off fireworks anyway.