4 Flats and a Night Under the Stars

Right now we are just cleaning up from the campsite we were staying in last night. Yesterday was a pretty interesting day in itself, and we are excited to be riding only 27 miles today as opposed to the 75 yesterday.

Yesterday we knocked out the first 35 miles pretty easily, but right before our first stop Lewie (who hadn’t gotten a single flat tire the whole trip (and who bragged about that (but he gave all credit to the Lord))) got two flat tires and took a hard spill. We were all drafting in a line to fight against the pretty strong headwinds and Lewie’s tire hit Mark’s and sent him flying into a ditch. It was pretty amazing because even though it was a hard spill, he got up without a scratch. Except for on his back which he found later…but when he got up and old man appeared out of nowhere according to Lewie (the rest of the riders said that he was there the whole time) and Lewie thinks it was an angel sent to protect him from that fall. After that he got another flat tire, and so did Marianne (which was also her first one).

We finally got to the campsite and found out that we were only allowed to have 6 people on the sight and the rest had to go to the primitive site that was about a mile away. So the boys all hung out until about 11. We ate dinner together which Emily made (she is an incredible cook by the way!!) then walked over to the primitive site after the ranger came and was wondering why we hadn’t set up the tent in the daylight. It was all one big debacle haha. But we made some friends with our neighbors Eric and Mary who were so gracious to us. They offered even to let the girls stay in their RV so that we didn’t have to walk over but the park ranger was pretty intent on keeping us on the primitive site. It ended up being a great time, and the boys woke up to Marianne calling and saying Eric was coming to pick us up so that we didn’t have to walk. So we shot up and packed up the whole site in 9 minutes. Yes. Beat that Bear Grylls.

Anyway so today we are off to Mrytle until Sunday. Keep praying that God gives us energy and protection.