Before embarking on this Bike & Build adventure, I often thought about the potential places I would visit, locals I would meet and different things I would see along the way. While we are just 9 days into our trip, we have already seen some pretty hilarious sights, mostly in the form of billboards, advertisements and bumper stickers at this point (though I am sure we will see other oddities in other mediums in the future...) Perhaps the most notably absurd sighting was a billboard we saw today. As I was riding behind my friend this morning, I heard her yell back to me "did you see that billboard? what does that even mean??!" As I looked up to see what she was talking about, there it was...a huge highway billboard that read "Learn to Skateboard with Yo Baby". By the time we all met up for lunch, everyone was talking about the sign and its ridiculousness.
When we arrived in Chambersburg we were welcomed by the Cold Weather Homeless Shelter. We were all psyched to find that we each had our own bed, linens and there were even multiple showers in the shelter. WOOO for not having to be shuttled to showers after a ride (it makes such a difference - you have no idea!)
Tomorrow is a build day with the Chambersburg Habitat for Humanity so we get to "sleep in" (i.e. 7 am rather than 4 or 5) so we all decided to check out the county fair. Well, this turned out to be one serious country fair. This was no kids day. Yes, there were the rides, and the fried dough (and fried oreos) and the games, but there was also some serious country singing karaoke contests. It felt like I was much more southern that western PA thats for sure. I was really surprised by how thick everyone's accents were.
We were clearly in the "look at that group of 15 kids that are not from around here" category (it also happened to be laundry day and we were quite the rag tag group in our assortment of "laundry day" attire). We decided to make a little scavenger hunt out of the evening and agreed to award prizes to the person who could shoot pictures of the following at the carnival:
Best mullet
Best couple
Best overall ensemble
Mark swept all three categories. It was amazing. I will try and post the pictures sometime soon.
Nicole and Thom ending up spending a chunk of the evening trying to win a stuffed animal at the skeeball. 10 dollars later, they were awarded a pink and orange gorilla, they promptly named Yo Baby. (Get it?) Tomorrow, we are all going to learn to ride our bikes with Yo Baby...hahaha.
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