day 42

12 July 2008



We rode 70 miles, to Lookout, Kentucky. We are just a few miles from the Virgina border, so we'll cross it on Monday. We rode over a few mountains today. We ride these tiny back roads, and they are STEEP!

As we've talked to other bikers along the way, many have mentioned that Eastern Kentucky is the worst place for dogs. So we've been on our guard. We've been chased by dogs off and on since Missouri, actually. Kentucky has a lot more mean dogs, but so far the really mean ones have been chained up. So the number of dogs that have actually come after us is about the same as Missouri was. And I'm hoping we're through the worst.

We drove up North a ways to stay in Pikeville for the weekend. Some of the famous Hatfield McCoy Feud events happened in Pikeville. Also, Pikeville is the location of the second biggest engineering project in the world - second to the Panama Canal. They made this huge cut through a mountain to re-route the river that flowed through the town.