We got up early and had breakfast. Then we carted all the panniers downstairs and pulled the bikes out of the employee lounge and one in a meeting room. Kristin was back on duty and wanted a a picture of us in front of the hotel entrance. Off we went, uptown, to a coffee place we saw on our way to dinner Saturday night. Joebot's Coffee was worth the trip. Downtown a few blocks and we were back on 66. We rode easily and uneventfully, feeling reasonably recovered. Channel 8 in Tulsa aired teases of our story on at least two broadcasts and a :45 second story on a third during the weekend. The anchor got some details wrong but we figured if just one person sought more information then it was a good thing. Today we were sitting on the highway, or should I say "Mother Road", outside a cafe in Foyil, Oklahoma, on our bikes, talking about lunch. We decided to go another ten miles before stopping when a woman came out and asked if we would come inside so she and her husband could buy us lunch. He saw the story the night before. That's at least one confirmed. Thank you Jom and Beverly Riddle. On through the afternoon we rode. The temperature peaked at 98 or 99, about 107 on the bikes, but now the humidity is climbing. It must have been 80-85% today. It is shocking how much water and Gatorade we went through. We found ourselves 85 miles in with an extremely limited choice of food and accommodations and after a Snicker between the three of us we decided to head all the way in to Miami. It was our first century and the longest day we've had so far. The route sheets I created are not absolutely accurate. I generally started and ended routes in the center of town which is not necessarily we we stay. Today it was 100 miles to the hotel.
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