Sea-to-Sea NA Day 15 A new week, clear skies, a little wind in the back, and cool temperature makes us all a little more energetic than other days. By 7:50 most others have left camp. A major grocery-shopping trip on the weekend meant that there was orange juice again or maybe I was a little earlier in the breakfast line. In any case it tasted good, as did the cinnamon raisin bagel along with my standard Raisin Bran with extra brown sugar and raisins. The ride zig-zagged across the country side a little to avoid I84 but eventually we ended up on it anyway. The wind direction was almost perfect and we rode up a long hill at 30+kph and down the other side at 45+ with George VK in tow. At that rate it didn’t take long to cover the 11km. Before we knew it we were at our exit and a truck stop for a cup of coffee and a piece of blueberry pie. After that we set off again thru sagebrush country on a long straight road with I84 along side but a ¼ mile away. We pulled into the school at Mountain House around 11:30 had some lunch as others continued to arrive. Some had already explored the town. Only because the Tour de France is on we searched out a refreshment stand that had TV coverage. Most riders ended up there because it was along the route and some bikes attract more bikes. The middle school we will call home tonight is nicely positioned, only a little shade from the building, main train track close enough so we can easily hear the whistles and tonight for variety we have the rope of a flog pole beating against the aluminium pole sounding like a gong. Don’t get me wrong; by the look of all the cyclists who are sound asleep it isn’t all that bad. The showers were warm and plentiful, the sprinklers have been turned off; two matters of great concern for us. There has been more than one night when people have been soaked by the ever-present sprinkler systems in this part of the country.