After taking down tents and loading the trailer, we decided to do our cheer and route meeting at the rim. We rode out of the park and stopped for breakfast/coffee just outside since our coolers had been pretty well picked over. In an exciting twist of events, we rode the same road out of the park as we did to get to the park. After backtracking 20 or so miles, I rolled into the same gas station we had lunch the last ride day. I knew lunch was going to be randomly on the side of the road so I loaded up on lunch aka Mt. Dew and a bag of peanut butter M&Ms. I rode by myself today, I guess it was because everyone I normally ride with was sore and tired from hiking so much the day before. I hung out at lunch for a while, played some guitar and nose flute with Tessa waiting for other people to show up. eventually I took off, to finish the ride. There appeared to be another storm looming over Williams which I was both excited for and dreading. I never got hit with any rain, but I did get to watch lightning going off in the distance.
On the way into town, I passed this place called Bearizona. We have Bearizona stickers on our trailer from previous years, so I looked up their website to see what it had to offer. Turns out its like a drive through zoo where the animals can literally walk up and touch your car if you want. Of course the name Bearizona means they have real bears along with wolves and other dangerous animals. When the website warned cars to keep windows closed and doors locked, I figured it would be unsafe to bike through to I continued on. Williams is a really cool nostalgic Route 66 town. Since I got there so early, I met up with Steve the other rider out front at some restaurant for some wings. Eventually we made it to the host around the block. Rather than traditional on site showers or hose showers, we were shuttled to various people's houses to shower. Dinner was provided by the host and we were briefed on what we would be doing at the build site the next day.
It was finally our last laundry night! We somehow managed to get stuck doing it 3 times this week, which isn't really that awful, but the fact that everyone else got to explore the town and we were stuck in the laundromat was a bit of a bummer. The Habitat crew also wanted us ready to go bright and early the next morning which was also a bit unfortunate as we normally count on build days to get a couple hours of extra sleep.
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