Well, we paid for the favorable winds of yesterday! Today we had a long 96 mile ride and the wind turned ENE into our faces and was stiff all day. It was a difficult day for riding and was tough on the new riders as well as the original riders. I did manage to draft some others from time to time, and also take my turn leading a group. I made camp by about 3:15 p.m.
I was on sweep team and had to set up for supper and serve and load the gear truck the next morning. The next day we are entering Canada and various churches are feeding us at night for the next several days. The kitchen crew wanted to get ride of all our extra food for that reason, so we invited the Richmond middle school football coaches and team to come to our camp and help eat up our extras. They were glad to oblige!!
We have a cyclist from the Gross Pointe MI area whose Pastor, Mark Van’t Hoff, had died suddenly of a heart attack earlier this year. Mark was only in his 40s. Pastor Mark was a strong supporter of the bike tour. He had a recumbent bike that his wife, Marcia, wanted have someone ride in the tour. There was a rider that rode it from Denver to G.R. Marcia was at our camp tonight and addressed us at our peleton meeting. She told us of Mark’s love for the tour. There were donations from the funeral that were given to the Sea to Sea tour cause. No flowers were desired. She challenged us to live out our commitment to the tour cause in our lives from here forward. It was a very moving time for all of us and her story touched Julie and I very much.
Tomorrow we are entering Canada, so we were reminded that we need our passports on our person.
Love to all, P & J.
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