Day 40

Day 40 was to Rockford, Illinois which happens to be the home of our very own Doug. We woke up at 5:30 and were greeted with eggs and ham which was sponsored by the camp we stayed at. We got ready and headed off for a 110 mile ride where I road with Brookes and Steven as sweeps.

We had to really push the pace to make rack points today but it was hilly and very difficult to do so. By the time we got to lunch with traffic and hills it was unsafe and impossible to make it to lodging so we had to get racked. I road 7 more miles before getting racked with Doug and we talked about his home town and his trip so far. He had a positive spirit even though he was going to get racked.

We headed to an Indoor Sports Center for our friendship visit in which we hung out with some campers. They turned me and a couple of the guys into mummies and we played UNO with some. One of the campers knew everyone's college or universities mascot. It was crazy that he even knew that Iona was the Gaels. After enjoying our visit we showered there and got ready to head to lodging and dinner.

Our lodging was at the Union hall which we had a vote prior to the day on what we wanted to eat. Chinese was the winner and we were granted with Chinese. It was amazing and I spent time talking to Doug's parents who were interesting. His father was really into physics and his mother is a Physician.

After dinner we had a projector and speakers so we watched Borat as a team and enjoyed laughing our butts off before we went to sleep.