ahhh man. what a day. i think we were all actually pleasantly surprised to hop on our bikes this morning and actually feel comfortable. we were in pretty good spirits, after our incredible hosts last night. they really took care of us. we arrived only to be greeted with pizza, beer, air mattresses, a swimming pool, outdoor WARM shower, pool table, shuffle board, ping pong table, awesome dog name Emma, cat, salad... the list goes on. totally unexpected and marvelous! Gary and Penny were excited about our green affordable housing mission and had all sorts of ideas for next years RGBG tour. 2 days in and we're gaining momentum!
At todays end, after stuffing our face with a large assortment of food (we're burning about 1,500 calories a day) we're all settling into St. John's Lutherans. Yet another cushy accommodation this evening. we're sleeping in a nursery. next to the box of lincoln logs. The Safeway down the street was having it's grand opening. What does this mean? samples. lots and lots of samples. As Mike was checking out he won and Ipod! It was pretty ridiculous-- upon returning to the church to cook up our stir fried rice, Nova pulled all the groceries out of the bags........ "um, where's the rice?" They look on her face was priceless.
Mike agreed to ride back and pick-up the main ingredient for dinner.
Alex, the volunteer coordinator from HFH Olympia, gave us a tour of some green affordable homes. Some highlights: pervious pavement, cottage style layout, on demand water heaters and radiant floor heating (which we actually found out HFH OLY was not such a fan of, as if they break, they are very costly to fix-- not such an awesome thing for a low income family-- or for anyone for that matter!), low VOC interior paints, hearty plank siding, minimal carpeting to minimize off-gas, insulated concrete forms, bio soils and native wild landscaping, recycled tiles,
to name a few!
Alex hooked us up with powerbars and gatoraide, gave us a tour of the ReStore and sent us on our way!
Actually, we detoured to the farmers market. got some amazing beef jerky trail mix! (we're burning about 1,500 calories a day.) We've unofficially named the tour Ride, Eat, Build Green. We just can't stop stuffing our faces!
Nova got a flat. She counted six holes in her tube. It rained on us a bit too. One big thick mist of WET! Not too pleasant (especially for those riding behind riders that got laxidazical about fender instalation.)
Overall today was a really great ride-- about 42 miles through some beutiful country side.
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