Carson City, NV to Fallon, NV

Today was another easy day, a good day to rest and prepare for tomorrow. Same old wake up at 6 AM. Breakfast today was actually sponsored by the Kiwanis club of Carson City. They're basically a service club. They were kind enough to serve us some hot pancakes and sausages. It was neat to meet a few of the club members, as a some were from Michigan. With that being said, I made sure they bleed blue and are true wolverines.

After breakfast, we headed straight off to Fallon, NV. The ride was pretty simple. A couple small sized hills embedded into the trek, but otherwise was flat if not slightly downhill. Add a tail wind and we were going at 25 mph effortlessly. With that speed, we arrived at the elementary school before noon.

Now there isn't exactly a lot at Nevada. I was pretty surprised that the town we're staying at had a walmart. Basically, the ride to Fallon was a whole lot of open space. In order to keep things interesting, we do stupid stuff to entertain ourselves. We call these challenges. I told you one of these challenges (the least stupid one), to do 2 pushups per every mile. The challenge for today was to put our hand for 15 seconds on top of an angry fire ant hill. The prize...an extra slice of meat for lunch. For me, the end didn't justify the means. For another kid, named Alex, it did. With that being said, that was 15 seconds of the funniest things I have witness on the trip.

Once we got to the school, we put all our stuff in the library (our lodging for the night), and had lunch. Instead of the usual lunch, we just had leftovers from last night's dinner.

After lunch, we relaxed for a bit, played a little basketball, showered up and got ready for dinner. Tonight's dinner was provided by Fallon Industries, basically a Good Will that also holds the communty center. What's great about FI is that they employ and house people with disabilities. They served us a tradional southern dinner...barbeque, followed by them raffling off donations including a plasma tv, and finished with a little dance to old 90's club music. Awkward at first, but once everyone got into it, it turned into a good time.

After a solid evening, we headed back to the elmentary school to rest up for a big day. Tomorrow is 125 miles and much of it is a steady incline, from what I heard. If I finish it, it would be my first "century" ride. Until then...