Day 10 - Baker City

Today we rode from La Grande to Baker City. We had some eggs and cheese with our normal cereal, fruit, and yogurt for breakfast. We cruised right along today. It was only about a 50 mile day. We stopped in the small cattle ranching town of Union to sit down under a tree with our usual peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. Gotta love that peanut butter and jelly! We arrived in Baker City at about 12:30 and stopped at the local bike shop to take a look around. We stopped at Charley's ice cream for a quick snack, Huckleberry and Amazon Trail ice cream. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Gotta support the local ice cream shops. The owner stopped by our table in the shop and asked about the tour. We handed out a few cards about the tour to others in the shop too. Who knows what may come of it, but we were encouraged to keep on handing out more cards. We are biking now, but we are still on a mission. The locals were great people. A local newspaper crew came to camp at the high school here in Baker City to interview several of us and take pictures. We found a river about a mile from camp, the Powder River. We plopped into the river from a rope swing tied to a tree along the banks. The river had quite a current, but not overpowering. Some local kids were taking what looked to be a float trip down the river in their little blow up boat. Now we are sitting in the shade of the gear truck waiting for dinner at 6 pm. We are always looking forward to dinner time. Last night we were surprised with apple crumble and ice cream for desert. Dad stopped at the Dollar Store to pick up a whiffle bat and ball. We hope to get a game going tonight maybe before dinner or something. If we are at all of these schools we figure that we might as well have fun on the baseball fields. We are still getting to know names on the tour. 150 people is quite a group. So many great people with great stories, new ones everday pop up to make our ride more exciting. Thank God for the great weather that we have been having and the great company to share it with.