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Friday, July 5, 2013

Day two St. John's Arizona to Grant New Mexico.

Day two, on our way to Albuquerque, our leg started in St. John's, Arizona and wet to Grant ,New Mexico. The previous day was body draining. Three of us including myself were overcome by heat sickness for a portion of the ride. Even Ray who road well and seemed to handle the heat OK was feeling unusually fatigued by the previous days effort. Because of the strain of the previous day needing rest to recover from heat exhaustion and having to meet an event deadline in Albuquerque at 5:00 PM we split the days ride with team 4 they did the first half of the leg and we did the second half. We road through saguaro cactus forests, deserts and ended at the Continental Divide in New Mexico.  It was funny we had come to the end point for the days ride, loaded up the bikes and off we went just to find the sign indicating we had come to the Continental Divide a 1/4 of a mile beyond where we had stopped.  Never shy about a photo opportunity we tried to ham it up a little and look like we had exhausted ourselves getting there, but as you can see we need to take some acting lessons...
 
What a blessing it was to join everyone in Albuquerque.  We met at the Orphan Exchange Thrift Store (https://www.facebook.com/OrphansExchangeThriftStore). Amazingly, the owner and his family support over 700 orphans world wide from that one store.  He has recently partnered with Christ's Hope International and began supporting a Care Point in Africa.  Team 3, the all girl team road the last leg to the thrift store that day.  the day before Alicia (standing, on the team right, in the picture below) had crashed and suffered some severe bruising and what she would find out a few days later at least one cracked rib.  We would ride with them the next day, in what turned out to be one of the best rides of the ten days.  See tomorrows post for an update.

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