Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
THOUGHTS FROM THE RIDE
Well, I have finished safe and sound! Yea!! 4,409 miles and 72 days later, Yorktown, Virginia looked great. I finished my ride at Yorktown Victory Monument, which is where the British surrendered to America. I am very happy to have finished in one piece.
The challenges of logistics (maps, roads, and distances), weather (rain, sleet, snow, wind, and sun), terrain (14 mountain ranges including the coast ranges of Oregon, Cascades, Maury, Bitterroot, Clear Water, Tipton, Blue, Beaverhead, Pioneer, Powell, Smokey, Appalachian, Blue Ridge, and Garden), nutrition, the bike and so much more.
I appreciate your support, it was needed! I was happy to know that people were really interested and concerned for me. Thank you so much!!
It definitely was a life changing experience - being on your bike and knowing that each and everything depended upon me. I know that life is precious and that I need to make my time count. It can be complicated or it can be very simple. You have a choice and I really plan on making each day important. I believe when I find the days running together, that most likely, I am trying to do too much. How much is enough to satisfy my need to be productive, to be a good husband and father, and to take care of community and business responsibilities? I hope that my belief in God and my determination to make a difference of some kind (small as it may be) in this life will direct me in a positive way. I do enjoy nature and the environment, which needs all the help that I can give her. I do believe Lance has a determination more focused than anyone I have seen to fight the battle of cancer for all of us! Cancer can be overcome just as we have with other diseases. I will try and support that fight the best I can.
Life is short, I am excited about its future for me.
My very best to each one of you.
Larry
The challenges of logistics (maps, roads, and distances), weather (rain, sleet, snow, wind, and sun), terrain (14 mountain ranges including the coast ranges of Oregon, Cascades, Maury, Bitterroot, Clear Water, Tipton, Blue, Beaverhead, Pioneer, Powell, Smokey, Appalachian, Blue Ridge, and Garden), nutrition, the bike and so much more.
I appreciate your support, it was needed! I was happy to know that people were really interested and concerned for me. Thank you so much!!
It definitely was a life changing experience - being on your bike and knowing that each and everything depended upon me. I know that life is precious and that I need to make my time count. It can be complicated or it can be very simple. You have a choice and I really plan on making each day important. I believe when I find the days running together, that most likely, I am trying to do too much. How much is enough to satisfy my need to be productive, to be a good husband and father, and to take care of community and business responsibilities? I hope that my belief in God and my determination to make a difference of some kind (small as it may be) in this life will direct me in a positive way. I do enjoy nature and the environment, which needs all the help that I can give her. I do believe Lance has a determination more focused than anyone I have seen to fight the battle of cancer for all of us! Cancer can be overcome just as we have with other diseases. I will try and support that fight the best I can.
Life is short, I am excited about its future for me.
My very best to each one of you.
Larry
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