Day 25, August 26th 2007 (Willard Bay,UT to Snowville,UT)

It was great to have all of the wonderful accomodations that the campsite offered me today. I was able to wake up to a shower and a gorgeous morning. I enjoyed a good 15 mile bike ride north until I was able to find a church service that I could attend at 10:30. It was the first time I was able to attend a service so far on the trip and I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything in the world. It was the St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Brigham City and I couldn't thank them enough for how they helped me. I was able to welcome myself to the congregation before the service and it was a truly incredible service where everyone was able to be themselves it seemed. I was able to enjoy some food and refreshments following the service and if that wasn't enough they had an internet connection that they insisted I used before I headed on my way. I spent a good portion of the aftd made sure to leave the blog address at the church so they could continue to follow me on my journey. I also left with a great gift from the pastor of the church and couldn't wait to enjoy a good meal that he had opened a window for me to enjoy. I left the church around 3 and knew that my rear tire needed to be changed. The air had practically all released just from sitting. I first headed to a grocery store to get some lunch, thanks to the church I was able to get a nice sized sandwhich. I ate half and saved the other half for the road. I was headed to a gas station so that I wouldn't have to use the air from my CO2 cartridges. I found a gas station but they didn't have an air compressor. It was the only station before I headed out of town so I was kind of bummed. As luck would have it there was another guy who happened to be in the station at the same time who was a cycler and he had a pump in his car. It was very convenient and in no time I was out on the road again. I had a good hike in front of me and it was already about 5. The first thirty miles were desert with nothing. I think a saw a couple of farm houses off to the side of the road and one pretty cool building, but that was it. The building was a NASA building and was closed since it was sunday. It had all sorts of cool displays in the front that I was able to tour through and it was pretty cool to look at. Once I made it out of the desert I had planned to use the interstate for a good 20 miles. It was getting darker outside and I was afraid I might be on the interstate when it was dark. It turns out that when I was 5 miles out of the town I intended to stay in the sun had gone completely down and I was relying on my light to see in front of me. I didn't have to worry about cars because there was a nice big path for me, but as I came closer to my destination there was a lot more trash on the side of the road and it was downhill. Going fairly fast the light doesn't do to well, and so I was about a half mile outside of town and my rear tube popped. I decided it was a good time of the night to go for a walk on the interstate so I hopped off of my bike and walked in the remainder of the way. I changed the tube when I made it to the gas station in town and hoped that would be all the flat tires I would run into for the remainder of my days on the interstate. There was a park 3 blocks from the station so I headed there to set up tent and enjoyed the remainder of the evening.
Daily mileage: 73.4 miles
Total mileage: 1289.9 miles