I've lost feeling in my entire left leg.
Not really, but my knee does tend to hurt more now that we're in "the flats", which, btw is not as accurate of a description of Kansas as we've been led to believe.
But really really, my left hand is pretty jacked up. I can't put my fingers together with them more than about half way up, and its a lot weaker than usual. So unfortunately for you, my loyal blog followers, typing is even less fun than usual. You may be hearing from me even less than usual. LOL GET IT.
Here's some stories or highlights or thoughts or whatever in no particular order, to give you some semblance of an idea into this adventure from my point of view, in no particular order.
A few weeks ago or so, we had our first crash. Chris and I were hauling ass, about to catch up to Vegeta - Michael has magic powers and can go Super Sayan 5 and leave us in the dust - and Chris got a bit ambitious with his drafting, caught his wheel on mine, and ate shit. he got a nice bonk on the had, and my fender got wrapped up around my wheel, and had to be trashed.This lead to a significant decrease in morale, and of course Vegeta escaped into the horizon. Soon Kody caught up and passed on by.
Chris and I carried on nice and slow, and after a few miles I heard a little squeakily sound from doe bushes in the side of the road. I pulled over and a wild tiny kitty appeared! It ran right to me. We were in the middle of nowhere; this was clearly not a pet, nor would have been anything but hawk food if we didn't add him to the Team. So forced Chris to carry my pepperonis and my phone, and stuffed my front bag with our new mascot.
Kitty made the seven mile ride to the church we were staying in that night, where he followed us everywhere and we immediately fell in love with his unavoidable cuteness. After much deliberation, including reaching out to our cat expert and future vet friends, and of course google searching " Will this cat die if we keep it", we decided Kitty would make the journey!
Next morning at McDonalds - a semi-frequent second breakfast/coffee stop for us- we had to leave Kitty out by the bikes. He wandered around and tried to find me a few times, but eventually i got him to lay down and stay in the shade.
" Yo... that's our cat. That lady has our cat".
We watched through the glass window wall things as a lady got in her car, kitty in her arms. We all kind of watched, trying to decide whether or not to do anything... then we just lol'd. Probably for the better. BUT DAMN WE MISS KITTY.
Story 2:
We stopped at a roadside flea market and bought a french horn and a trumpet. These have been wonderful additions to our musical arsenal, which also includes claves, a tambourine, a kazoo, and our lovely voices. We definitely don't use them enough to warrant actually carrying them... but I bet my horn makes it all the way. #Legendary
Thang 3:
Here's a brief look at our Poke' stats.
Michael "Michael Taylor" Taylor
- Overall Speed - 8
- Special Ability - Pasta Putenesca ( a master of both Italian and the Culinary arts, Mike can craft a gourmet meal out of any two or more ingredients)
- Weakness - to be determined
Kody
- Overall speed - 6, increases to 7.69 on flats
- Special Ability - Safe Spot ( using nothing but his handheld personal computer, Kody can locate a safe place for us to stay every night. Sometimes we even get free pizza and beer)
- Weakness - requires at least 2 cups of coffee before playing
Chris
- Overall Speed - 5.69, increases to that of whoever he is drafting.
- Special Ability - FIX DAT ( not a broken spoke, a shattered chain, or an unadjusted handlebar can escape the trained eye of this master mechanic)
- Weakness - big ass hills and mountains. Also his back wheel is poo and brakes all the time. Also he wakes us all up early as stank every damn day with his totoro sounding ass ringtone.
Dylan
- Overall Speed - 6, increases to 8 in big mountains, decreases to 5 on long nearly flat downhills.
- Special Ability - Collect (any animal, artifact, or treasure in the area will be immediately detected, retrieved, and placed somewhere on this basin's bike)
- Weakness - tends to be naked at inappropriate times, and never has any damn cash so the homies have to front for his ass at all these podunk towns that haven't yet figured out its the 21st century so you should take a frikkin card.
Squoodle bop 4:
Changed my mind. Im tired of typing. Hopefully doing this spurred something in me so I'll write another thing sooner rather than later.
Love Dylan.
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