A beautiful biking day! The day started with a bright blue sky (no fog) and a few degrees cooler than during the past week.
Alec and Jamie were mostly on a bike trail that covered the flat terrain with many soybean and corn farms along the way.
They are sticklers about covering every mile between Old Greenwich and Santa Clara University, so Gina drove them back 25 miles to where we had picked them up yesterday during a rainstorm. Today those 25 miles were no problem, and the boys easily rode the full 82 miles to Richmond, Indiana.
Gina leaves tomorrow for a while and I am going to miss my partner in crime!! She is the planner, the organizer, the one to call ahead and book hotels. Gina checks out the restaurants and makes sure there are healthy choices. She chooses the hotels closest to the bike trailheads where Jamie and Alec will arrive after a long day. And she makes the sports drink Jamie and Alec drink on the trail, as well as the gorp they carry with them to snack on. I’m not even sure what goes into those two, but know they are essential and she will leave me with the recipes.
Gina, we will miss you, but know you will come back refreshed and ready to take up your essential role when you return. Together we will find a cure!!
From here to a cure,
Cristy
Gina, we all recognize that the boys couldn’t. Get this done without your and Cristy’s extraordinary care and tireless efforts. In someways, what you two are doing on this journey is more challenging than the cycling (don’t tell them…). OG welcomes you home for some needed R&R! Let us know how we can help when you get here.
Ed
We all know this would not be possible without Cristy and Gina, it really is a team effort and we are all in awe of your trip and how smoothly it looks (might not be so smooth when you do it but you show us such an uplifting side !)
THANK YOU !
Santa Gina, come back soon!!!!
Hi Cristy and Gina, too. Thanks for all your dedication and hard work and the FUN you both have, too. I want you to know that I look forward to your notes and CRY after each read. All of you are just amazing. Big hugs to Jamie and Alec.
Joan
Teamwork makes the dreamwork! I know you will miss Gina, but feel completely confident in your abilities to make it all ok for the heroic riders! We love you!
What a great team! This is a case study! Also, what is going into the smoothies – you all are looking younger by the day 😊.