Jill calls in from Sawtell.

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Hi, this is Jill Homer calling from Sawtell Mountain Resort in Idaho.  We had a tough day today.  We left Lima under dark skies and light showers and it turned into heavy showers.  It turned the road into all kinds of muck and wet cement -- just stuff that was not really even rideable and places I had to drag my bike through some of it and it got all gooped up and couldn't get all of the mud off and pretty much lost both my derallieurs.  So, I ended up walking and single speeding a lot of the day.  I tried to chip it off, but, it was slow.  And I got caught in one storm, came right up from behind me, and thunder cracked down -- or lightning -- and the thunder was instantaneous.  It was an amazingly loud noise.  It felt like it couldn't have been more than a few feet away.  So...anyway...that... it was, it's been tough.  I made it to Sawtell and I picked up a copy of The Post Register which is a newspaper where I used to work.  Makes me feel close to home even though I sometimes feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere, pushing my bike through the mud for...not a real good reason.  But, it's been fun and hopefully the weather improves.  It's supposed to be another, at least another, day of this, maybe more... but... keep going.  Talk to you later, bye.