Humbled

So hear we sit Sunday morning. The whole group had breakfast and headed out to church. Two churches in the area took us in. A Lutheran church and a Presbyterian church. One at 10 the other at 10:30, one serving sausage, the other hamburgers. Everyone wanted to go so Carrie and I stayed behind to keep an eye on the site. It was pretty quiet, but a few people showed up for different reasons. One guy was looking for the Red Cross evacuation site because there was a fire close by, just on the road we were supposed to bike. Back to the biking. When I first started this trip I was adamant that I would never be sagged. That is, never get driven into camp. It's a pride thing. I think most of the bikers male and female were thinking the same thing. It's that feeling that if I don't ride every mile I somehow didn't complete the trip. Well seeing that we've all been sagged now for three days, looks like everyone is in the same boat. God has humbled us all. He is in control and made us all realize that. Our pride is not more important than other riders health and safety. 

We listened to a podcast from perry noble of newspring church and he talked about grace. It was very fitting for what was going on lately. The temperature still gets over 100 degrees here and apparently in Death Valley the temp will go over 120 a record or close to one. Some clouds rolled in today , something we haven't seen for a week. Along with the clouds came high winds and a little donder and blixen ( thunder and lightning). Apparently some people didn't feel it was necessary to stake down their tents. They look real cool as they're rolling across the field. Most people ran for cover but it was hot so getting drops of rain on my back felt good. The trailer also got cleaned out today during the storm so people's baskets were beside their tents getting wet. Carrie and Stan started putting flys on people's tents and we grabbed their baskets and put them in their tents.  Then a few others found people's stakes pounded them in or collapsed the tents so they wouldn't blow away. Nothing like a bit of excitement to show who's in charge. Moms ankles are swelling so she's trying to keep them elevated so the swelling goes down. So far the elevation is ok with me. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road soon. Tonight we're eating left overs.   See you all tommorow 

Len