Seeing Spearman
November 21, 2020 Filed under Uncategorized
Today was another day off, and well-deserved since we’d gone 90 miles the day before. I needed to lounge around and catch up on work anyway.
He was going to keep napping, but I mentioned coffee and snacks. Up in an instant.
In the mid-morning we went riding in search of food but didn’t see much. The cafe at the end of the street was still closed.
The Spearman train museum.
This is a coffee shop. It even has a drive-by window. Wouldn't be out of place on a San Francisco street. Awesome.
On the far side of town we found a restaurant and got a meal while sitting outside. Four of the restaurant staff came outside to gaze at our bikes and ask questions, which we gamely answered. The other patrons were friendly but none of them were wearing masks.
On the way back to the hotel I stopped at a market for miscellaneous snacks while Nick rode ahead. Then I briefly explored the big Spearman tourist draw alongside the highway: The outdoor windmill museum. Pretty neat, actually.
Nick worked on college stuff for a while and did his own exploratory ride, then disappeared into Star Trek and memes for the evening.
At the hotel I ran a load of laundry, checked in at work again, and made travel plans for the next week. Hotel rooms, truck rentals, train tickets. Once we got to Shattuck we would be able to stay there for at least three days, recuperating and looking around, and then we’d ride one town over and grab a U-Haul the day after.