I woke up a bit later this morning and my body appreciated it. John made some pancakes for breakfast and we sat around and talked for a bit. The morning followed with a few tasks that needed to be completed, first being my IRS form for Japan. The process did not take long due tofu exact that John let me borrow his computer and a few envelopes. The next task was going to REI, not to by climbing gear, but for bike tubes. Finally got. Few more, that I will hopefully not have to use. I have had pretty good luck with the tubes, none have pinched since the first few days. Although I did get my first real flat going into the tri-cities. I had a goat thorn go in through the side of my tire. It even went around the thick plastic strips I put inside my tire to protect from things like that. But I was ok with it because it was my first flat from natural causes. When we got back from REI I fixed the flat and cleaned up my chain the bike was ready to ride tomorrow. 
For lunch we went to a little sandwiching joint where I had spilled pork sandwich, and it was at this point I realized I was turning into dad because I'll I order is pork now haha. That's ok be abuse they a great sandwiches. A bit after lunch we went to the animal shelter that John and Ellie helped establish. It was state of the art facility which held I think 60 dogs and 60 cats. We toyed around with the idea of putting an animal basket on my bike so I could take one of the puppies with me. Early afternoon led us to get a pint of beer at the local beer house followed by a relaxing afternoon of reading Atlas Shrugged. Over beer we had an interesting conversation about school discipline systems, Ellie was a 5th grade teacher. It sounded like the Pasco school district enacted this program called make my day which had a four leveled system which seemed to allow the kids to notice behaviors and then learn from them. Some similar stuff we did in wilderness. It sounded like it has worked well with these kids. They seemed to start the program in the elementary schools and then it just follows suit the higher they go.
We finished the night by going to dinner with some of their biking friends at a Mexican resteraunt. Great bunch of people with the passion of riding. Shared stories of riding out to Bickleton, Mt Hood, Seattle to Portland, an many others. I posted some photos for the previous days when I got home and I was itching to get back on the road tomorrow. I really enjoyed a day off and the experiences of exploring the cities a bit and I think I'm addicted to biking right now. I just want to keep going further and further, good thing I have plenty of space eastward. Oh I also made a plan change, I'm headed further north again to glacier national park. It sounds like the road may be almost completely plowed by the time I get there. With this change I will be staying Montana and skipping Yellowstone, who has yet to stArt plowing the roads. I thought this to be he best choice since I forgot my snow tires.
I uploaded pictures instead of writing this post. I'll post it when I have internet again! Back to some camping :).
I'm staying in the tri-cities today. I'll rewrite this post tonight.
Headed to Dayton WA tomorrow.
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