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Once again, it is late and time is limited, but I do have a few quick things to say! Nashville was amazing. It was SO great, I absolutely love this city, and every time I visit, it lives up to the expectations I made of it before my first visit. I think I still want to live there some day. I just need to find a reason to now. That being said... my highlight of Nashville was Saturday: I got to ride!!!! :) I had never before been on a road bike, but borrowed Criselda's bike to take part in the c… Continue

Greetings from Anson, Texas! It has been a good couple of days, including a visit with the Rotary Club in Post, Texas yesterday. Today we took part in a very southern worship service (complete with a fiddle!), and were warmly and gernously welcomed. After the service, as we were carrying things in, I was wheeling bikes in to the church to rest there for the night. As it got dark, I decided to carry them because I could not see what I was wheeling them over in the grass (and road bikes are pret… Continue

It is late and I should have been in bed an hour ago, but while I have internet access I wanted to give a quick update. Every day, this trip keeps getting better. The team is growing closer together, we are finding ways to be more efficient and let things run more smoothly, there is increasing humor in every story, and we now have a plethora of inside jokes to share. Life on the road is good. Today we crossed into the great (nation) state of Texas. On the weather channel tonight we took a look… Continue

We are off to a great start this morning. Last night we stayed at the Baptist Church of the gigantuan town of Quemado, New Mexico: Population 300 (give or take, I actually don’t have any idea… but it was a small town!). It is so big and high-tech that their only gas station in town had to stop selling gas because their old pumps can’t register $4.00. Gas, groceries, and all basic things one might need can all be found in Springerville, which is “only” 50 miles away. This church, once again, wa… Continue

I was looking for an adventure this summer - and I am certainly getting it!!! My last post stated that our van had broken down. The good news is this: it was NOT the transmission (as we initially thought), but rather a couple leaks we were able to get patched up with the help of some amazing and kind folks who stepped forward just when we needed them. It could not have worked out much better, really... and we now have the van back and were able to use it to offer support to our 14 riders as the… Continue