ornoth | Voice Post: 2009 PMC Sat Dighton

The following is a transcription of a phone post that originally appeared in my main journal, here.

Well I've made it to the Dighton lunch stop, which is 70 miles in, which means my rear wheel has continued to hold together despite the fact that the last three mechanical stops and two vans on the road, none of them have had the spokes I need to replace my spoke. However things are holding together well, and as I say it seems to be holding together so maybe we're okay for now.

We're in Dighton. Dighton is the location of the annual Cow Chip Festival where people place bets to guess which square in a field the cow will defecate on first (we're kind of in rural Mass right now).

And we're about to pass over a one-lane swing-span bridge, which is the oldest swing-span bridge in the US. Over the Taunton River, it was built in the 1890s. It's a one-lane bridge.

And Berkley, which we'll be going through at about the time we hit that bridge: B-E-R-K-L-E-Y. There's a missing 'E' in there because when they filed the name of the town in the state records, there was a misspelling in the registration, so it's Berkley, not Berkeley.

That's it, things seem to be going well. It's getting hot here. We're approaching 90 degrees. But feel really good, just a little bit of twinge in the neck, but hoping mostly that the mechanicals hold together. So far so good. That's it, we'll talk to you again shortly at the next rest stop.