DAY 27 (5/12-THURS) MARIETTA to PHOENIXVILLE, PA  70 MILES, 11 MPH, 6:20 BT  9:30 to 8:00  FASTEST SPEED EVER 39.6 LONGEST DAY  FRENCH CREEK INN $90.   Late start-thick fog-too dangerous to be on rd. Jacket comes off in 2 m. Beautiful farm lands, horse & cow farms-continual climbing. Large Amish & Mennonite communities-very impressive. See cows close to rd-stop for picture. Etta gets off tractor to talk to me-get cows at 500 lbs-fatten & sell for steaks. Tell her OR is vegan-his father was butcher. Her husband was cleaning up piles of manuer  after days of rain-also sells food to feed cows. They’re Mennonites & daughter is in Coast Guard stationed in WA. In 30 m see golf course-want to stop OR? No-keep going. Made wrong term-2 men stop to help. Hungry-stop at gas station-eat hot dog on curb. Now on beautiful country rd-38 m-OR starts down long downhill. POW-SNAP-LOOK DOWN-CHAIN IS LAYING IN RD😂😂😂. What to do-think I can coast downhill. Look to my rt-see RTauto repair shop. In over 10,000 + m-never saw auto repair shop on back country rd. Go in-Terri comes out-I’m holding chain-hands black-explain problem. OR bikes up-2 ladies in car honked & told him I had accident. Terri takes OR to bike shop (3 m-a lot of Mennonites ride bikes). Husband Randy says owned shop for 40 yrs, daughter is 2nd grade teacher. Help put links in my chain & back on bike-no charge. THERE ARE BIKE ANGELS & THERE ARE MIRACLES. THANK YOU TERRI & RANDY. THANK YOU GOD. Back on rd-see huge rv camp-really wanted to get something to drink-OR too far in front. Going up mt-POW-SNAP-OR’S CHAIN IS LAYING IN RD😂😂😂. Pull over-thank goodness he bought another $3 link. OR is down on ground, hands black-doesn’t like to be dirty. I want to call Terri for help again-OR drops little link-can’t find it. DON’T MOVE-see link on leg. 5:00-chain is fixed-both biking again-still 25 m to go. Out of water-little towns have several churches-no place for drinks. Stop at FIRE STATION-no one home-just left on call. See lady in driveway-gives us 2 bottles of water-her cat comes over & sits by us. Can’t describe how difficult biking is. Hungry again-come to fancy rest in middle of no where. Talk to lady coming out-must have really felt sorry for me-offered to give me left over pizza. Can’t believe I took it-go in & get $3 root beer. Can go now. Finally at 8:00 PM-we come to 1st motel-French Creek Inn. Another large & clean motel. OR walks to Italian Rest-I have pizza. Eat in room. Made it through another day with a lot of help.