Sunday, July 6, 2008

Taking it day by day

Day 5 was an easier route only 60kms finishing the canyon. I have been praying for clouds and rain and sure enough that is what we got today. While I was dancing around camp, people were shaking their heads and putting in prayer requests. We taped up my injured foot and away I went. Good news! No effect on the cycling, I’m as slow as ever! On the road, Mark was following behind me and noticed that my back tire was a little soft. We couldn’t find a leak but decided to just change it anyway. This is where I completely took the princess role as I have never change my tire or tube and wasn’t about to break my streak. Mark and Bryan had me on the road quickly.

I had my BEST ride so far with an average speed of 21km/hrs. I was made to bike in the rain. We had our first hosts along the route as Zillah CRC had a snack and drink meet and greet about half way along our ride.
Finally we reached camp in Sunnyside early in the afternoon so after pitching the tent( the weather had cleared and it was sunny and warm to dry our stuff.

The local CRC welcomed us with a terrific Mexican spread by the church in Sunnyside. Being July 4th, there were also fireworks to close the evening.
Opa Ralph celebrated his 67th birthday surrounded with singing and warm wishes.ng
I have been going to bed late as I have been trying to help others with computers and stuff, things I know about, pretty much anything that requires creative survival other than cycling.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gayle, I've been enjoying your blog. Please help Len, my brother-in-law, with his computer. If he doesn't get his blog going, I'll be depending on you for tour details. Regardless, I'll still be reading your blog. ☺
It's neat-all the varied personalities on this tour-yet,
all biking for an awesome purpose.

Anonymous said...

Hey Gayle -- Thanks for filling in the missing days. We were a bit anxious about the lack of blogging, although we eventually gathered that there were internet access problems etc. Hopefully the problems are history as we have, admittedly, fallen headlong into the adventures-with-gayle-vortex (keep your eye out for the worried white rabbit with the timepiece).

Take care and get your beauty rest like a good princess.