After a great breakfast cooked by Bill, I said goodbye to Bill and Linda and continued down the forested hilly county road through the town of Waterloo. Just east of town, right as I had to get onto the much busier Highway 6, the rains started to pick up. Luckily, the new construction of Highway 6 included a huge shoulder with a rumble strip barrier.
I stopped for a lunch break at McDonalds in Butler just a few miles from the Ohio border. I had to camp out in the restaurant to let a downpour pass. After the rains I walked through town and started running on the wide shoulder into Ohio. After the border, the shoulder shrunk to two foot wide which led to getting sprayed by passing vehicles. It only last a couple of miles as I quickly made it to Edgerton.
I crossed the railroad tracks to the south side of town where I met Jared and Emily Hemenway and their boys Isaac and Mason. The Hemenway's graciously offered the guest area in their basement for me to stay in for the night after talking to my uncle Jason. Emily was a fellow Oregonian from Newport (although sadly she's a duck fan). Following an amazing steak dinner and watching TV, including the start of the ducks loss to Arizona, I crashed in the guest room.
I stopped for a lunch break at McDonalds in Butler just a few miles from the Ohio border. I had to camp out in the restaurant to let a downpour pass. After the rains I walked through town and started running on the wide shoulder into Ohio. After the border, the shoulder shrunk to two foot wide which led to getting sprayed by passing vehicles. It only last a couple of miles as I quickly made it to Edgerton.
I crossed the railroad tracks to the south side of town where I met Jared and Emily Hemenway and their boys Isaac and Mason. The Hemenway's graciously offered the guest area in their basement for me to stay in for the night after talking to my uncle Jason. Emily was a fellow Oregonian from Newport (although sadly she's a duck fan). Following an amazing steak dinner and watching TV, including the start of the ducks loss to Arizona, I crashed in the guest room.
Three states to go!
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