I'm late, but congratulations to you both! It's been fun following along!

" A bunch of exhausted people eating peanut butter straight from the jar"

As if there were some other way to eat peanut butter... :)

Hurrah for you both!

Chris, thanks for sharing, and continuing to share, your journey. It’s been so much fun following along.

What an experience! So glad you chose to do this. Savor the satisfaction of reaching your goal - you earned it!

Yay! 🎉

Sad and shameful, indeed.

One more thing I wanted to say about Kam Wah Chung -- while I appreciate the celebration of Chinese-American history, I also want to acknowledge that part of the reason the story of Ing Hay and Lung On is preserved and shared is because of their success in assimilating into the white community. I wonder if the Chinese-American community would have chosen different figures to honor.

High-quality alpaca content. Very nice.

Love it! Too bad the park couldn't be a little more understanding of cyclists'needs. But a grassy shady site is nice vs hot gravel!

Congratulations on that 4,000th mile Chris- not to mention the 3,999 that preceded it!

Wow - they've really upgraded things at the hostel! I remember staying there about 10 years ago and we slept on the floor of the sanctuary. It was still nice then but it sounds perfect now for touring cyclists.

FWIW, I also slept up front near the pulpit in 2015. I reasoned that I had spent a lot of my youthful Sunday mornings asleep in the back row of a church so I may as well sleep up front for once! I loved the church hostel, they had free pancake mix for my breakfast - they told me that the laundry and some of the other facilities (including the free food) had been purchased with cyclist donations, so I also left a donation there.

Dayville Community Church! I slept in the little nook behind the pulpit. :)

Your comments about drivers rolling coal and rarely slowing down for cyclists are among the major reasons I choose to tour in Europe.