Day 6

47 miles.  Lexington to Troutville.  Shorter day today after all the climbing yesterday.  No big climbs today but several short steep ones that can sometimes be worse.  We got a little later start after breakfast.  I'm in a motel again tonight.  It has a computer so I can do a little more typing.  Using the phone to type on is agony for me.  The temperature got into the mid 90's by the time we stopped today.  Most of the ride was on very small roads with no traffic.  The past few days have been through very beautiful estate type farms around Charlottesville and then the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Today was mostly small rural communities. 
We stopped in Buchanan for lunch at a great old pharmacy.  They had the old time counter and juke box with 45's from the 1950's.  All of the food pictures are for the benefit of my wife and mother who don't think I ever eat enough.  None of the pictures are of my meals, they are just pictures I took of other people's food. 
While we were at the Cookie Ladies house in Afton I saw a note about a family in Radford that hosts Transam cyclists.  I called them this afternoon and we will try to stay with them tomorrow night.  I'm looking forward to meeting people like this. 
While we were on the Parkway yesterday we had a guy come over and talk to us at a rest stop.  When we told him where we were headed he got so excited.  I think when I'm back home I will tell people I'm riding to Alaska even when I'm only on my way home from work.