Sorry that we have not updated you in a couple days, but the schedule has been hectic and the satellite link was down last night.
Sunday was a day that started with worship as a group and training the rest of the day and another worship service with area Seattle churches, at the U of W ballroom. It was 92 degrees in Seattle that day and most air conditioning does not run or exist out here.
Monday, we biked over to the Golden Beach Park on the Puget Sound and had our rear tire dipping ceremony and were off on our first day. The Seattle area churches gave us a great breakfast on the beach. The remote broadcast link did not work that day, sorry. We biked 48 miles the first day to Sulton, WA and camped out at the High School athletic field. What a great site of tent in our traveling tent city. The temp on Monday reached 95.
Today was a difficult day for all. We had a 79 mile day and the first half was up the Stephans Pass to 4,150 feet, all from zero. Wow, what a long, hard climb. One guy in our group that has done a couple Rocky Mountain week long rides said he never had such a hard day in his Rockies experience. Most of the second half was downhill and I reached 40 mph before getting a little nervous and eased on the brakes. There was a little crosswind and I do not need a bad experience. Some people did not get in until supper time. Today the scenery was spectacular. The Cascades are beautiful....filled with evergrenn and foilage and snow capped peaks. There was occasional snow in the ditches as we rode by. We were usually next to a roaring mountain river with very turbulant waters.
Tomorrow is another tough day with another 4000 foot climb and leave the beautiful Cascades for the high level desert plateau of WA and ID.
Thanks for your continued prayers and support and blogs comments. We feel you prayers!!!
Love, P&J
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I am going to try this once again. I tried resetting my password, so I'[ll try again. We had some very heavy thunder storms this afternoon. We had 1.4 inches of rain here, but all around, north and east things were much worse. Lots of rain, hail, wind. Downtown GR was hammered. Power is out in many places. We had three waves of storms pass and then the sun came out for awhile. Now we have more storms heading our way.
How was your day? What are your days like? What time do you get up, have breakfast, have dinner? Do you all eat as a group, or is it as you arrive? What time do you start biking? Have you been assigned a group for the trip, or does it change each day? What are Julie's assignments? Is she alone, or does she have a rider?
Enough questions. Keeping you in our prayers.
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