I had to bail out twice on 321 yesterday. Once when a large truck passed into me and the other when a logging truck coming up from behind me let me know he was coming through my space wether I was in it or not ;-}. I had one other time when I wished I had bailed out as large truck squeezed past me too close for comfort. With a mirror I would have seen that one coming! In the other two cases, it was no problem to ride onto the grass beside the road.
I also had a half full beer can tossed at me yesterday. It was gentle toss and definitely not an attempt to knock me off the bike. It hit the ground in front if the bike - things thrown from pickup trucks almost always go in front of my bike - and only a few drops of beer hit my left hand.
I was cruising along, feeling a bit tired - I'd done 95+ miles at this point - and enjoying the pretty countryside when I saw three black dogs racing towards a gate ahead of me. I heard their owners calling out them to stop. The owners sounded worried and their dogs seemed very intent on doing me bodily harm, so I started sprinting. Those dogs weren't barking, they were just coming after me as fast they could go. Fortunately, I was a little faster. The lead dog got within about ten feet of me before falling back. It was slightly uphill and I was doing 25 mph by that time. I don't think I would have been able to out run him if I'd had my bags on the bike. I also don't think I'll try riding that road again.
When I got to US 29, I checked my map and then headed south towards Anderson. There was a motel just down the road, so I stopped, checked things out on my map, and checked in at the motel. I had decided that I could ride 29 back to SC 8 and follow it to Pickens where I would pick up 178 to Rosman, NC.
The motel was $30. Cash. The owner was working on his daughter's electric scooter. He asked if I had a big pair of pliers. I did. I'd found a Leatherman Supertool alongside the road into Savannah just before the first bridge. I kept it because of the pliers and the cable cutter. I hadn't needed it, but now the motel owner used it, along with his own pliers to fix his daughters scooter. We visited for a bit, and then I went to my room to clean up.
The room was fine - they had just replaced the mattresses, it was clean, and everything worked. It did stink of cigarette smoke, but it was a very nice room for $30. It was also a very noisy room because of the traffic on 29 ;-{. I really needed my earplugs, but they were with my bags. I did OK until sometime in the middle of the night when a car (or truck) made so much noise that I almost fell out of bed ;-{. I didn't get back to a sound sleep. 101 miles, 6:30 hours, average speed 15.1 mph.