Well the day has finally arrived. We left this morning and will be driving down with Margaret & Joe and camping along the way. We are in Illinois at a campsite. Beautiful weather. A nice dry warm air. They had a huge wind storm here yesterday, 94 per mile an hr. winds. Lots of trees and branches down.
Well I finished my training on Saturday for a 131 kms. ride to Port Burwell and back. It was hot and humid. Margaret, Joe and Peter and I headed out around 8:00 in the morning. Had a nice ride down but got dumped on with torrential type rains about 30 kms. from home. Peter remembered to take his rain jacket, so at first we took shelter under a tree during a thunderstorm) and Peter protected the four of us under one raincoat. We figured if we could be in these close quarters huddled together under one raincoat we would be able to spend a week together travelling to Denver. We took shelter in an old shed for about 1/2 hr. and started out again when it started raining heavy again and once again we found shelter in an old deserted barn. Peter biked home to get the van to pick us up but we had decided in the meantime to start biking again since it had stopped raining. My dear husband decided to take a quicker way back to pick us up and of course missed us. We arrived home before he did. It was a good training experience for Margaret and I. I now have 7100 kms. on my bike.
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Hi Rita, I hope and pray that you get off to a great start ...as you know we're off on vacation and away from computers so I won't be able to track your progress for a bit ... take care and blessings, EricGN ps. send my greetings to Jake P. and Kevin and tell them I'm still waiting to see their blogs :)
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