Day 23

We saw our first bear today! It was a black bear off in the field and he ran across the road in front of us. Unfortunately we couldn’t get a picture. Next time. We think we are down to five day before we reach Alaska. The days are getting colder, we are getting older, but the bikes are holding up well. We are trying to be at par with them. We road over 70 miles yesterday and we can smell the finish line. Walking didn’t keep up as only put up 2 miles doing daily prayers of thanksgiving and safe requests for the future. Please keep praying for us, it is making a difference. Thank you!

Here is our recorded miles for the 1st 3 weeks and 1 day:

Day-Walk-Ride-Total

1 (8/2 Sat.) 7.5 55 62.5
2 (8/3 Sun.) 1 60 61
3 (8/4 Mon.) 5 52 57
4 (8/5 Tue) 4 14.8 18.8
5 (8/6 Wed) 8 60 68
6 (8/7 Thur) 8 47.1 55.1
7 (8/8 Fri) 12.5 60.2 72.7
8 (8/9 Sat) 28 35.2 63.2
9 (8/10 Sun) 7 30 37
10 (8/11 Mon) 16 53.9 69.9
11 (8/12 Tue) 4 57 61
12 (8/13 Wed) 18 50.4 68.4
13 (8/14 Thur) 11 49.4 60.4
14 (8/15 Fri) 14 61.1 75.1
15 (8/16 Sat) 15 55 70
16 (8/17 Sun) 6 62.6 68.6
17 (8/18 Mon) 16 60.2 76.2
18 (8/19 Tue) 17 64 81
19 (8/20 Wed) 2 60.5 62.5
20 (8/21 Thur) 11.5 50 61.5
21 (8/22 Fri) 16.6 52.6 69.2
22 (8/23 Sat) 2 75 77

TOTAL 230.1 1166 1396.1