Today we biked up, over and through parts of the appalacian
mountains!!!! It was insane! I, Kristen Dyke, biked up mountains. At
the top of the mount afton, there is the cookie lady's house. She has
been providing cyclists who bike up the mountain with cookies, food
and water since 1970 and has everyones stories and postcards and other
things in a "bike museum" It was so cool, talking to this old woman
and hearing her stories, and it was exactly what we needed after that
first big climb. We biked the Blue ridge parkway, amazingly beautiful.
Looking down after we biked up gives such a great feeling of
accomplishment and empowerment, in addition to a magnificent view.
Words cannot give it justice. In other news, I still have a huge
bruise on my calf from orientation when I almost fell but caught
myself on my pedal. Some people on my team say it looks like the face
of Jesus, others say thier dad or an alien, I don't see any of it but
we have some pretty creative people on this trip. Biking up mountains
is hard work, but awesome!!!
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Kristen, we are so very proud of you that you were able to make it up those mountains today!! One can only imagine what an accomplishment like that must feel like, and just think, this is only one of many more accomplishments yet to come!!
ReplyDeleteIt looked more like a blob to me!
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