Again…..We awoke to rain…..!
After having to put on wet cycle clothes - yuk!, we packed up camp & headed off.
After being on the route for about 25km & knowing we had no easy accessible food for lunch (2 minute noodles don’t count when it is pouring with rain) we decided we should go off route to find a food store that was located on our map.
What a excellent decision that turned out to be - the food store was amazing - we thought it was probably only a service station that sold chips & soft drinks - but to our utter amazement it was a fully stocked ‘everything you could ever need store’ it even sold freshly baked cinnamon scrolls with icing on the top!
We stocked up on food & had a bite to eat (it is still raining…!) & headed down the road for 5km to a town called Condon which was really a town with a just a garage & diner - but at the back of the garage was showers & a laundry so we stopped there & washed all our wet & dirty clothes., and just as we arrived it was a miracle…. The sun came out - so did we not only manage to get the washing done - but we managed to get the tent & the tarp all dry as well (& sit in the sun & soak up some rays while eating ice creams) .
After the washing was done we continued down the main road (in the sun) for another 15km to the turn off to Holland Lake Lodge.
Lake Holland lodge is a ‘Semi Dude Ranch’ (what ever that is?) & is such a magic spot nestled in amongst trees, here we set up camp in the campground just next to the lodge & headed to the lodge for a well deserved beer! We enjoyed our beverages while sitting on the shores of the lake in the sun!
We enjoyed a lazy evening in the sunshine.
DISTANCE: 60.54km
AVERAGE: 16.0km
RIDE TIME: 3.48hrs
ASCEND: 710mtrs
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