Day 2

Well, I would love to tell you that day 2 was better, but I would be lying. Thankfully we did make it 50 miles down the road before Mark, of course, got another flat. By this time we're just patching the tubes because we don't want to waste anymore new ones. We plan on visiting a bike shop to find out what is causing all of these flats on one tire, but we won't see another bike shop for another 100 miles or more, so for now we just have to make do.
However, the flats are not all of the craziness that we experienced today...
We missed one of the turns on our map and went out of our way for 9 miles before we realized the mistake. Obviously this isn't a big deal if you're in a car, but on a bike it's a different story! So we ended up adding 18 unneeded miles to our trip. And as we turned around, it rained on us and didn't stop pouring for the remainder of the evening. Thankfully we have good rain gear, but that didn't stop us from a good soak. We were never so glad to finally lay our heads down for the evening.
P.S.-Washington is the most beautiful state I have ever seen!!! Mountains and rivers at every corner. Also, it's really cold here for being July. It averages 50 degrees in the evening and 60 in the day. We're still so glad to be out here!