The mile high city is behind us. The Denver area churches were fantastic in the welcome they gave us and the encouragement and food provided. Sunday the area churches combined for a worship service at an area high school stadium. It was a time of worship and praise together and communion was also served. At these weekend celebration services, the CRC agencies and area organizations focused on helping the poor and oppressed have a ministry fair with booths and staff of hand. A the beginning of the service, all the Sea to Sea cyclists and staff did a partial lap around the stadium track to the music of our theme song, “Do Something Beautiful”.
The area churches provided noon lunch for us and evening dinner on Sunday. We were certainly welcomed and treated well here. Thank you, Denver.
This morning, Julie needed to get our pickup in for an oil change and lube. She was to be led by an area volunteer to the oil change place. It turned out that person was Roland Buteyn, our high school principal from back in Waupun, Wisconsin. They were able to chat while the oil change was completed. He is retired and has lived in the Denver area near his children for a number of years. Small world isn’t it?!
Today we had to get ourselves through and/or around the metro Denver area. This was a concern with the traffic and rush hour. It turns out that we could get on the South Platte River bike path and follow the riverside all the way through and out of the city. That was great. We biked right past the Denver Broncos football stadium.
Once out of the city, we were in rolling hills of sage and desert conditions again. We needed to use I-76 a couple times today when there was no frontage road. The frontage roads were so bumpy, that at one point, I picked up my bike and walked a couple hundred feet to I-76 and continued on that nice smooth shoulder. It was then that I noticed the ground was scattered with cactus. I had not seen that from the road.
It reached 100 or more degrees this afternoon and I was glad to be in our Fort Morgan high school camp by 2;00 p.m. after our 90 mile ride. We had a couple thunder showers just skirt by us, but the wind this afternoon was very gusty and threatened to blow our tents away. I had to add some extra ropes to hold mine down. We had another rainbow today, it is at least the 4th one we have experienced, a reminder of God’s promise to Noah many years ago.
Love to all, P &J.
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