The celebration in St. Catharine’s was quite an event. From 2 pm until 4 pm we huddled under the pavilions at Queenston park and ate peaches as the rain poured out of the sky. At about 3:50 the rain let up to a drizzle and we made our way to the natural amphitheater and stage. […]
Continue ReadingHere’s the newsletter from SeatoSea communications headquarters: The link for end of week 8 which I missed linking to earlier, it’s been available since Thursday. I guess I’m a bit behind the times.
Continue ReadingThis past week I had more than two dozen people come up to me and tell me that they’ve been reading my blog. It’s quite exciting to meet them and hear that even though it occasionally leads to a somewhat awkward conversation. I decided to go back and look up my traffic statistics after meeting […]
Continue ReadingI departed Redeemer with Josh Nyenhuis and Bob Terpstra this morning around 8 am. There were more church stops planned this day than any before and there were only 75 kms to cover before arriving at camp. I brought zero food along and left with not even a drop of water in my bottle. I […]
Continue ReadingThe ride out of London began with a rather painful crawl out of my tent. A little slip on the grass with my good hand and I jarred the bad shoulder before I had put the brace on the day… not all things go exactly according to plan. I had arranged to depart camp with […]
Continue ReadingThe time-trial was set to go this morning beginning at 9 am and was to occur starting at the 45 km mark of the ride today. That meant I needed to leave at 7 am for sure but that was absolutely no trouble as I was staying at Cynthia Aukema’s house with all of the […]
Continue ReadingWednesday’s ride was short to accommodate an international border crossing that no-one really knew the timeline for. It’s one of those things that can go very well or quite poorly and as a result it’s been a topic of prayer for quite some time. Well it took more than 6 ferry loads to get everyone […]
Continue ReadingTuesday went better than Monday even though I crawled out of my tent having significantly less sleep than I had hoped and was in quite a bit of pain. Breakfast was a parade of people asking how my shoulder was and all I wanted to do was curl up in a corner, eat food and […]
Continue ReadingTo sum up today’s ride in one word… Lousy. I headed out of camp not really knowing what to expect and did manage the whole 111 kms at an average speed of well more than 30 kph. Those 2 statements probably don’t fit together very well but that’s because it’s not my legs that are […]
Continue ReadingSaturday we woke up to a cool Michigan morning just a bit south of Grand Haven ready to ride the final stretch of our route into Grand Rapids. The day was to be a short 75kms with no elevation gain worth noting, a couple stops at CRC churches and the home of Tyler Buitenwerf. We […]
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