Republic, WA

It's so hot here at the "Youth Dynamics" center we're staying at tonight. An oven.

The entire day was a scorcher. It's been record setting heat here in Washington.

After arriving to town, I searched looking to get my haircut; I was that hot. Well, of the three places, two were closed on Monday and the third one was "booked" even though it had one chair and absolutely no one was in the shop. I just took a shower and got over it.

We biked Sherman Pass today, elevation 5,575ft.

All the big names, Thor, Viggo, Hugh and Craig were in sync and we rocked the rode.

The pass had a 26 mile uphill.

It sucked.

Related to that, I ate a pint of Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ben and Jerry's after dinner.

And at the grocery store we bought breakfast cereal and went all out for the brand name, allowing us to have "Fruity Pebbles" instead of the generic option "Colored Rocks."

Local youth came and pestered us outside the church. Kathy and Anson challenged them to a bike race. That shut them up. They left with their heads down in shame.

It's been a rough, rough day.

There's a front coming in and it should be a bit cooler the next few days.

The kind folks from Chewelah gave us 40lbs of peaches. They are the most delicious peaches I have ever eaten. Every single one is juicy, sweet and ripe. You need to eat them hunched over while standing because there's so much peach juice seeping out of it.

We have a special guest coming tomorrow to join us for the rest of the trip, an administrator, Brendan Newman. No comment.