Total flats as of last night is 262
We woke up the morning at 515. The temperature was 56 degrees. After getting everything packed up and ate breadfast we managed to get on the road at 645. This is the earlist we have gotten out so far.
I road with Bob an Lisa Brouwer and Alida VanDye from St Catherines and a 2005 cyclist. We were doing very well early in the morning and were averaging over 15 miles/hour. We made several stops besides the regular SAG stops. We stopped at a large dairy farm owned by Ted Miller. It had a big carorsal cicular milking parlor that milks 50 cows in 10 minutes. They milk 1700 cows and have an other 1300 young stock. They own 1500 acres. Many of the cyclists were fascinated by it as they had never seen anything like this. This milking parlor reminded me of the one I had seen in the 1950's in New Jersey. The technology in this one is more uptodate and pretty impressive. We enjoyed cold chocolate milk.
Cyclist getting a lesson on dairy operations, the milking platform for the cows. Hank and Mary at the Dairy.Hank met me at the dairy and was pleased that he is learning to draft. Today he is riding with Mary and Bill Drache. It seemed to be going very well.
Next we stopped to look at the gorge we were riding by and took numerous pictures.
Florene tempting fate by looking into the gorge. 
Getting into Twin Falls we biked over a huge bridge that spanned the gorge. We stopped mid way and on the other side to take pictures. When we got to the other side we heard someone was going to jump of the bridge with a parachute, into the gorge so we hung around until he did. I tried to get a picture but it all went so fast.
Cyclists viewing the gorge at Twin Falls and view of gorge from bridge.
In Twin Falls we stopped for lunch at Twin Falls Reformed Church. They feed us subs, ice cream potatoe chips, watermelon and chocolate or strawberry milk and water. It was delicious and hit the spot for everyone. The church has over 1500 members and it a very large church. Thanks so much to the people in Twin Falls for their hospitality. It certainly was appreciated by the cyclists.
Shoshone Falls from up level.
At the church the local CBS affiliate interviewed mysel and other cyclists. The TV News online also interviewed us. You might try magicvalley.com to see if you can view it. We are also hoping to get links post to the seatosea.org website so people can see the coverage we are getting.
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/07/17/news/local_state/140539.txt
After lunch many of the cyclsits headed to the Shoshone Falls as they are supposedly higher than Niagara Falls. It was a steep ride down. I only went half way as I had seen it before in the spring of 2006 when it had the most water flowing over it in 20 years. I did not care to pedal up on a 12%grade. Hank decided not to go either as he too had seen it before. So he by past it altogether.
After all these stops we were now serious about getting into camp as we had 40 miles to go and it was now 1130 and getting hot and windy.
Bob and Lisa did a great job of pulling Alida and I into camp. We did have a 1-2 % incline for about 20 miles so we had to work harder than we did in the morning. The last 9 miles though we had a wind on our backs and it was pretty much down hill. All of us were glad to be home.
I got in about 315. So I had a chance to take a shower and than started to get on to the internet to up load to the blog. I was unsuccessful last night and hope to post tonight if possible. The internet seems to be going in and out and we are having lots of challenges with it.
Jenna Zee and Reuben Vyn showing off their buys at the local thrift shop. Jenna always wanted a square dancing dress and Reuben loves plaid jackets.
Some of the things we have gotten use to is hearing trains in every campsite so far in the night. As we are staying in towns along the river valleys and the Oregon Trail the railroad has been an important link for them. Some of the towns have been a major connecting point for the trains and a lot of shuttling goes on that we hear in the middle of the night.
We also hear dogs barking and last night I could hear cattle in the middle of the night. These are sounds that I do not hear at home.
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