Day 16 Bicycle Trip 2023

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Day 16, I can’t believe that we are less than two weeks from being done with this trip. Today we rode 55 miles of nothing but up and down, steep uphill and then steep downhill, one after the other. Tonight we are in Manchester, California at the KOA campground. They had the best hot tub of the trip, really hot and powerful jets. I closed my eyes and laid back and was enjoying the full body massage and when I opened them up there were seven young ladies sitting in the hot tub with me! I thought, I better get out of here before one of the other guys in our group sees me and takes my picture. They all smiled at me when I got out.

Our Bicycle Group also called Beauty and the Five Beasts
This is the silhouette that my map program makes for each day’s route. This is the silhouette for today. Of the years I have been bicycling, this was the worst or the hardest day riding I have done. I don’t think there were ten feet that were flat. We were either going up or down. It was fun even though hard, I think because of the challenge and variety. There was no casual biking with scenery viewing today. I was constantly shifting gears either up or down, and the downhills were curvy with lots of posted 15 mph corners.
Almost all of today’s ride was right next to the ocean so this is the view we had most of today., very beautiful.

Today I spent most of my bicycling time riding alone and prayed almost all the time I was riding. I prayed for everybody I could remember in the church, for all of my family over and over, for myself that God would use me more and more for His glory in spite of my age. I also did a lot of thanking and praising the Lord for all of His blessings to me especially for Patty, my family, JBC, Agape, and all the experiences He has given to me over the years. It was a very good day of bicycling in spite of all the gasping for air that I was doing! 😂

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