End of the second day

I am having to write this the next day because the place that we camped did not have wireless. In fact, it didn't even have cell phone coverage - no one in town had cell phones! But anyway, the turned out to be a scorcher - it was mid 70's and an uphill climb the whole way. We had made our breakfast and headed out. We stopped about 3 miles down the road to refill our water and make a last bathroom break since there were nothing for the next 17 miles. I thought we'd be fine, but with the sun beating down on us, we ended up running out of water within the first 7 miles. By the time we rolled up to Ohiopyle, we were wiped out.



We got there about 4:00 and decided that we should probably stay the nite in the nearby campsite. We ended up meeting some friends, all of which who rode recumbents, and they told us about an even greater town 10 miles up - Confluence (with a better campsite, and warm showers). So we followed one lady in the bunch and made it in record time.
We set up our tents (I've never been much of a camper in the past, but I decided to give it a try) and got everything ready. I bought my tent at Cabellas and had never used it, but was excited to be "roughing it."
We found out that there were no showers (too early in the season), which was a little discouraging since we hadn't taken one in almost 2 days (gross, I know). We were hoping the other "campers" in their big Winnebagos would have pity on us and invite us to use theirs, but unfortunately it didn't happen. Oh well, at least the camping part would be better. We made our food and got into our warm sleeping bags (it was supposed to be pretty cold that night) and fell quickly to sleep.