Today was an easier day. Only 49 miles and a 1,400 foot elevation climb. A lot of people again left early in the morning to beat the heat. It made the low 90s again today. I left at about 7:15 a.m. and arrived at the Baker City High School, our camp for tonight, at about 11:15. I immediately treated myself to the largest Diet Pepsi I could find. We are camped on the athletic field.
Today we headed toward the Elkhorn Mountains and paralleled them into Baker City. They still have snow at the very top and this is extremely rare per the locals. At lot of us stopped at a small town of Haines City today for a cup or coffee and snack and talked with the locals. As a group, we are trying to connect with the locals and tell them what and why we are riding and pass out a small info card about the tour if they want to find out more. Most people are very approachable and interested in what we are doing. We passed a large number of windmills up on the hills today. This is not the first time. We saw a lot of the blades for new windmills being transported via semi-trailer on the way out to Seattle. You cannot believe how large the blades are. Each blade is transported on an extra long trailer, about 2-3 normal trailer lengths. Each windmill has 3 blades.
There are 2 museums/exhibitions devoted to the Oregon Trail history here. Julie and I had to catch up on some laundry and did not have time to check them out.
Tomorrow I am back on sweep team again and will need to setup for dinner and serve and cleanup and then get up early to setup breakfast and cleanup and be the last group out to make sure all the riders are accounted for.
I see on the tour site that donations are now at $1.55 million. God is great!!
Love to all, P & J.
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Mr. Wiersma....you are cruising! Keep up the good work. I take solace in the fact that there is no way anybody's calves are more prepared for this journey than yours.
Dear Pete, What a trip! We can't believe that you are climbing all those hills. We travel with you each day on your blog and sitting behind our computer we are exhausted. We pray for God's richest blessings of strength and safety as you continue your journey. God bless you and Julie! Dick and Nan
It is hard to believe you have almost conquered two states already. By now, all your muscles must be toughened in. All we can say is wow, wow, wow.
Cathy and family have been here for a week, so we have enjoyed the girls.
Mom's doing well.
Pete and Julie,
We are back after spending a couple days going to Stratford, Canida, to see the musical "Music Man" (Anniversary Celebration). We traced some of the same roads that you will be on a few weeks from now. The crossing at Port Huron (Blue Water Bridge) went smoothly on the way to Canida and took a 45 minute wait to get to and through Customs on the way back to the USA.
We watch your blog daily and you are in our daily payers ...God Bless you all.
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