Stayed in at very nice RV park in Meridian ID on Sunday, went to the 10 mile Christian Church, ate and then dropped Robert (our driver) off at Boise airport. We then made our way to our staging area for the final week of our journey which placed us in another RV park in Baker City, OR (Monday) where we began our ride to where I now write from, John Day, OR. This area looks like Wyoming spread out.
High lights of the last few days have been the on going scenery, and of course the people we meet along the way. Some of you asked about the fellow with the pug nose and hat in the picture on Saturday. His name is Jacob Kittleberger from Vienna Austria who now lives in OR. He was walking along the side of the road (going up hill) pushing his bike with a large cooler strapped down on the back of his "fat tire" bike. I stopped, got off and decided to walk up the hill and talk with the man, who seemed quite content to be out in the middle of nowhere with pajamas a broad brim hat and house slippers pushing his bike uphill. Come to find out he was riding his bike 24 miles to go to the world famous fiddle festive in Cambridge and then would return early the next morning at 3am to make his way back to his home in Council. Seems that Jacob had lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, and had brokered cars from America back to Austria, and some where along the line decided to move to Idaho and had been in the Northwest for the last 15 years.
When I asked him "what's next" he responded "I'm going to visit China in the next couple of years." I asked, "Where's your home" he responded, "where ever I am." When I asked "how do you make ends meet" he simply responded, "God provides," and then he looked at me and said, "you should try it sometime." YIKES! I got a thousand sermons in that little statement...and with that I end with this blog and a reminder from my friend Jacob Kittleberger who some time some where today will be riding or pushing his bike into life..."God provides...you should try it sometime!" Forgive me Lord for always trying to figure it all out and simply be content that you keep your promises and I have to be in a position to experience them. That's it for now...drop us a note on the blog...The Rust Rider....Scott
5 comments:
Scott,
We just wanted to remind you that what you guys are doing is so amazing and so selfless! Good luck this last week of the trip. Be safe and finish strong! We love you! The Bray Family
ps-Ella turned 1 this past week...how time flies!
To Rick Brown--Hey send me your email address to my house (mptallent@cox.net)---the one I have is not valid. We miss yall and would love to catch up.
Pam
Hey readers of the comments,
Today I started at the beginning and reread the comments from each blog. There were several that had been added since I had read them. So if you haven't already done so, you may want to start at the beginning and go all the way to the end--you will probably be reading some new comments too!
Keep the prayers going this last week!!! And for safe travel back home for each of them.
Pam
Riders,
Just think in 3 days you will have accomplished something very few people have!!! I hope all of you are proud of yourselves. I know yall all have many, many stories and testimonies about God's wonderful creation and His provisions for this whole trip!!
I can't wait to be able to see all of the pictures that tell the story of this amazing trip!
Keep safe these last days, and rejoice that the end is just around the corner!
God bless yall always,
Pam
You're almost there, time flies!Scott, pretty soon we'll be able to talk to you in full sentences and not have to fill in the blanks when sprint decides to leave them. I don't know what we'll do with all the extra time it's been so exciting to check this site daily, some times multiple times to see progress. Sag nazi #1 is definitely motivated, out riding his bike nightly.....training for whatever's next I guess.
sag nazi wife
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