Today we rode north into a headwind… If we had been heading east the day would have been one of the easier ones but alas we’re going to Dordt College and that means we’re riding north for a couple days. I got all the photos online from the past week (week 5 album link) so […]
Continue ReadingSunday we were warned that early this week we’d be traveling through an area that would teach us why the dinosaur’s died. Hopefully we’d experience the beauty of this paleontological hotspot rather than the brute force of it. Indeed we did today, it’s hard to capture on camera because it’s rather spread out so photos […]
Continue ReadingToday was no doubt one of the best days thus far on the trip. Our route was long, challenging, beautiful and rather rewarding. The people on the road alongside me were full of hilarious conversation. The weather was splendid, overcast and mid-twenties. I got to sleep in all the way until 6 am. I’ll make […]
Continue ReadingA quick update on stats thus far: I’ve put in 1378 kilometers in the past two weeks. A total seat time of 50 hours and 17 minutes, which puts my average speed around 27.5 kilometers per hour. The celebration service in a downtown park this morning in Boise was lots of fun. The message was […]
Continue ReadingA week of cycling is already behind us. For some of the cyclists it seems like we’ve been riding forever, I’ve heard the phrase “So where are we actually right now?” more than once, I on the other hand feel like we just started and am only beginning to catch on to the whole process. […]
Continue ReadingI arrived safely in Seattle on Saturday afternoon after a bit of re-routing. Everything turned out great and I got to pay a bonus visit to Vancouver as a result, all my bags are here and my bike which was taking a ride on top of a fellow cyclist’s car has arrived in working order. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a cool story, it’s a bit of a nightmare to keep track of names I’ll admit, but consider yourself lucky I’ve got 140 names to learn when I arrive in Seattle in 5 weeks. Neil, Ellen and I went for a short bike ride on Saturday morning and upon the return of Ellen and […]
Continue ReadingThis morning McKernan Baptist, the church I’ve been attending in Edmonton for the past 4 years has a commissioning for all of the people doing “kingdom related work” this summer. 17 people were sent out from just that community to go make a positive impact on the world for Christ in the next 4 months. […]
Continue ReadingSix nights of accommodation for the Tour this summer remain unconfirmed. Would you please join in praying that the leads that are currently established would follow through and that the location in upstate New York would be sorted out. It would be a great relief to the organizers if all of these locations could be […]
Continue ReadingOne of the things that I have been very careful about communicating is that all of the money they donate goes towards the cause and none of it is to support us cyclists, who are relying on corporate sponsorship or themselves/ourselves to meet those costs. Our development manager, Al Vander Hart, passed along a prayer […]
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