83 kilometer ride details

Note the railway runs right behind the campsite or the whole town for that matter. There were a few trains at night and one in the morning that blew their horn but I easily fell back to sleep after the sudden blast. I woke up at 6 and proceeded to sleep until 7. I got up, organized and then rode without my gear to the credit union to get some cash since this campsite is run by the town and uses the honour system. While I was at the bank I decided to pick up supplies at the grocery store. Inside I gave out a small cough while reading my phone. From out of nowhere I heard a voice “I wish I had that”. I looked around at the clerk stocking the shelves and said “my phone?”, “no your cough so I could get off work early” said the clerk. You know those akward forced conversations where one party wants to tell their life store while other just wanted a loaf of bread? Well this was one of those and I learned he was in the army, lost a third of his brain in a truck accident and was fifty years old. I didn’t know what to make of it but the accident was very plausible.
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