Sunday's family time was over before you knew it and then we were off to the Celebration Service with Shane Claiborne - an awesome service where Shane used as his prime example, Mother Teresa, in his message on "Revolutionary Gentleness". We can all learn from her. Memories are made of all the time that we spent together on the weekend with family.
Monday morning we were sent off with words of encouragement from the staff at Calvin College - and then we were on our way just after 8:00 a.m. We had a tail wind that day which was wonderful. Rita and I averaged 25 kph for the ride of 110 km and were in camp nice and early. Tuesday night was a different story - it was a 153 km day with head winds and it took us a lot longer to get in. Joe was finished at his SAG stop early and biked to meet us and drafted us in the last 20 km. The weather both days was great.
Now Joe and Peter are on as official support crew - Joe brought along the trailer so now I do not have to sleep in a tent every night - this does make it so much easier to get up and ready in the mornings. Rita shares the trailer with us....leaving Peter to sleep in the tent which is his choice..either he snores too much or he is too tall to fit into the trailer.
Tuesday night we got the message that we were all to be finished breakfast by 7:00 so we could make our way into Marine City for our ferry crossing on Wednesday morning. This had everyone up very bright and early.
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