Day 38: Abbeville-Edison, GA 37 mi.

This felt like a Sunday morning. We had a short ride into Georgia. Breakfast wasn't scheduled until after 9:00 am. We had Belgium waffles with plenty of syrup. The terrain was still deep rollers and though we rode 1/2 the distance we ascended 1/2 the elevation as yesterday. Fortunately, halfway, the 'rollers' became less and we were begining to see the end of continual climbing. Unfortunately, there was a headwind. But it was not discouraging and helped to cool us off. Tonight we are staying in a Methodist Church which has hosted Wheels for at least 12 yrs. One year they had scheduled a revival meeting that day and the local Baptist Church agreed to host Wheels. But the congregation was so upset that they appeared at the Baptist Church instead of the revival and begged Wheels to come back. Tonight we are having the church's traditional fish fry. All of the men of the church are firing up their propane deep friers and we will have a feast of all things deep fried includind deep fried bacon (!?)Again, the hospitallity of these small towns and churches continues to impress me. At the local convenience store the manager knew all about our trip. He lives next to the church and I invited him to join our feast, but he is a Hindu and a vegetarian but an enthusiastic celebrator of this small town's Wheel's event. Only 3 more days of biking and 220 mi. To go.