When we stay in Motels on our bicycle trip I do a lot of investigating online to find a cheap place to stay. There wasn’t a lot to choose from in Vale, Oregon. There was an old Hotel listed so I called about it. The lady was very nice and when I told her we were bicycling and needed a room on the ground floor if possible she gave us this apartment to stay in. It is at least 2,000 square feet with three bedrooms, two baths, a huge living room and a very nice kitchen, and the best thing is that the scales in the bathroom showed me 5 lbs lighter than I was a week ago. And also the air conditioning works great.

Tomorrow we will bike 60 miles to Juntura, then Burns, then John Day, Mitchell, Redmond, Idanah, and then home. We will leave in the morning at 5:15 am to do as much riding as possible when it is cooler, though the low temperate forecast is 68 degrees, but that beats 100 degrees.

When our son, Seth, picked us up this morning at Mountain Home, Idaho and drove us to Vale this morning, I left my IPad in his car. That is what I write my blog on. I am now writing it on my iPhone. So expect lots of mistakes in the next week in my blogs because I can’t see the keyboard very well and my fingers are twice the size as these little keys.

On a trip like this you meet a lot of weird, mean, cranky, and dumb people, but you also meet a lot of very nice people who are kind, gracious, and considerate.

Jesus said in Matthew 7 that each of us ought to treat others the same way we want to be treated. It is a good discipline to notice how people act who you enjoy being around and attempt to pick up their manners and ways of talking.