Day 3: Singing in the Rain

Good morning! Day 3!  First early start of the trip. We get going reasonably well, eat some nuts and granola bars and begin the hills again. We arrive in this its little town along the James river and have breakfast. It was tasty. Food has never tasted so good as on this trip!  At breakfast we try to figure out lodging for the night. Hotels in FarmVille are oddly expensive!  We call a B&B and left a message. We could camp again, but it looks like rain. I'm a fair weather camper, especially when on a bike all day! So we hit the road. 18 miles to the next town. 

As we approach the small town the B&B has called. We call back and have a room for the night. Its so nice to have a destination In mind! We arrive in the small town and are debating lunch. This is the last option before FarmVille but we aren't terribly hungry. We could get by on snacks after our 1.5 breakfasts we ate. We decide to go to a Mexican place.  It was tasty and cheap. We both easily finished  our meals and weren't overly stuffed. It's amazing how hungry hills make you!  

Back on he bikes. A very light drizzle started, which actually felt quite nice. The road is smoothing out though. Now the part you all/my brother has been waiting for. The first dog chase!  This big dog is coming for us. As we start peddling faster we are saved by an invisible fence!  However, the very next house has a pack of dogs. Like literally six of them are coming at us.  We are like,oh boy,here we go. Three of them cross the road,but only halfheartedly chased us. Does that count as one dog chase? Or three?  You decide. 

So we bike on. Getting closer to FarmVille on these nice country roads. With just a few miles left the rain picks up, and is now raining pretty hard. We roll into town, seek an awning and call the B&B to make sure they are ready for us. We look up the final directions and head there. 

Janie, her mother Ann, and dog Cotton greeted us with towels!  It was so nice since we were soaked!  But all of our stuff in the panniers stayed dry!  We were shown our room, got out of wet clothes and showered.  I came up with a pretty genius way to dry out some of our stuff. 

Gotta love bungee cords!

We headed down to visit and were served snacks and wine. This place was seriously the place to stay in FarmVille. It was only slightly more than the Super8 and less than other hotels. 

Then we walked FarmVille and found a cute waterfront place to eat, with excellent desert!  Day 3 and I still hadn't gotten icecream, so I needed desert! 

And we later found out at our B&B that we did the recommended bike tour of FarmVille with lodging and eats according to Virgina Living Magazine!