Day 20 Canon City, CO to Colorado Springs, CO

Today we had a relatively short ride in mileage of about 50 miles. It was however, over the foothills and it was no walk in the park. I rode with John Noordhof and Dan Kiel again. We were in at the new camp before noon. We are staying on the grounds of the Colorado Springs Christian Schools. The campus is a group of buildings for K-12 and they are built on a steep side hill. You have to be part billygoat to negotiate the parking lot from bottom to top!

From our camp, we have a great view of the Rockies and Pikes Peak. We had a group of about 5 young bikers that in addition to our ride for the day, also took on Pikes Peak and completed the climb! It was very cold on the top, about 45 degrees and the mountain was in rain clouds much of this afternoon. We actually spotted a funnel cloud near the peak from our camp. There were others from our camp on the peak with a van and they took the bikers back to camp.

We had a problem with our van again today. Julie and I were making laundry runs with campers and also needed to get a new tent for one of the campers. The van stalled in a busy intersection, and of course would not restart and we were in the middle of 5 lanes of traffic. George, the guy who needed the tent, and I pushed the van across 3 lanes of traffic and Julie guided it into a bank parking lot. After about an hour, we were able to get it restarted and it then ran fine.

Tomorrow we are worshipping with a local CRC congregation and we have a day to rest up!