Leaving our camp this morning the road out of the camp was so steep that I had to push super hard on the peddles and spun the back derailleur right off of the bike. It was nice that it happened right in the parking lot so it didn’t take to long to put it back on with John’s and Richard’s help then Mary pushed me up the hill while I peddled and we got out on the road with no more mishaps. Today was a high mileage day, but the big deal was the heat. When it gets over 80 degrees my energy level goes way down so I whined quite a bit today. We rode through the city of Phoenix and are camping in Apache Junction tonight. We are staying at a Warm Shower host home tonight camping in their back yard and able to use their showers for free. Warm Showers is an organization of bicyclers who make their homes available for other bicycle travelers to use and then get to stay at other members places. There is like 70,000 members so there are lots of places to stay. The fellow who owns this home is gone but said we could stay anyway. Usually the hosts are home and feed us dinner and breakfast and we have lots of great fellowship. I made several good friends on the last trip that I still correspond with. About 20 miles of the ride through Phoenix was on a bike trail that went along a river/canal and every time the trail came to a major road there was a tunnel under it that the trail went through, so you went down real steep onto the tunnel and real steep out the other side. It was pretty dark inside and in one of them a homeless guy had set up his camp and I came within inches of running over him. He wasn’t used to “trikes” taking up so much room. In another tunnel a bike was coming from the other direction and he didn’t see me and I had to brake real hard to keep him from hitting me, and then I had to push the bike out the other side because I didn’t have the momentum to pedal it out. Tonight I am sitting in my lawn chair letting my wife spoil me with a Starbucks freeze, some delicious soup, cheese and Ritz crackers, and a snack of trail mix, while I read my Bible and write my blog and journal. Tomorrow is going to be a super hard day with major climbing and heat, but Sunday we are taking off, whooooooeeeeee, can’t wait!!!