Hi everyone! Welcome to days 58 and 59 of our trip. Day 58 started out with us immediately stopping for food and/or donuts in Walla Walla before even getting any miles in. On the bright side - the donuts were very good. We had a short day with only 50 miles of riding, but unfortunately the scenery was still very much the same - yellow treeless rolling hills for miles.

Washington is proving to be a goldmine for license plate collectors like our Matthew who had yet another very fruitful day with lots of plates found.

We got to our stayover at the First Christian Church of Kennewick early at about 1-2 PM so we had lots of time afterwards to a laundry and post office run. The nice people from our stayover prepared a delicious dinner for us which we all appreciated immensely after the past few very tough biking days. Thank you to the First Christian Church!

We also had a few more promposals happen at the stayover!

Day 59 turned out to be rough for a lot of our riders. We decided to do an early wakeup and rollout since the day was going to be long and very hot again, so everybody was sleepy and tired to begin with. Not even half way through the day we already had 6 people in the van with myself joining them after 55 miles of riding. It seemed to be a very taxing day for everybody and the 90 miles just seemed to last so much longer than usual. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a nicer biking day for us, especially given that we will be going to Mount Rainier! We will be camping again tomorrow and the day after for our rest day, so we will not have service to post any updates online :( We are hoping to have lots of fun though and we will check back in soon after!

-Valerie