Day 30 - July 7 - St. Joseph, MO - Rest Day

A very lazy day. I woke up at 7:00 (a rare luxury), did laundry, got new tires for my bike, washed my bike, and read 250 pages of the new Harry Potter novel. (Yeah, I know, I'm a slow reader.)

This is our first hotel room with internet access. (The hotel in Salt Lake City had only gotten around to wiring their first floor, and we were on the second floor.) Andy has been on my computer all day, emailing everyone he knows (and several people he doesn't).

The hotel is next door to an excellent barbequeue restaurant, where I had lunch for the second time in as many days.

For dinner, we had a cookout, with burgers and shish-kebabs. Sandy's husband is out from Salt Lake City, Carol's family is out from St. Louis, and Cindy's family is out from Boston, so it's a real family affair.