Today, Friday 21st August got off to a miserable start. Light rain fell for much of the night and continued until lunch time. The windscreen wipers on the bus ran on intermittent for the whole morning and the cyclists went splash splash splash! Added to the drizzle was the temperature – only 9 degrees or a touch above until morning tea. The pace for much of the morning was slow but picked up when the sun came out. Jim rated the morning as only a 5 but the afternoon rated a 10!
Our roadie food team are spoiling us! The riders are arriving to a wide assortment of foods, some hot, some cold, a fire burning, even chairs to sit on (if the sitting part is not too sore for sitting!), a roof over our heads if it is raining and more. What more could we ask for? Thank you food roadies.I hear that Perth is still having rain and bad weather and that means we might have it with us for days to come. We would appreciate your continued prayer for our safety, especially as we begin the desert crossing on Sunday. We will be in the land of road trains and semi trailers until September 3 when we reach Port Augusta. The Lord has kept us safe thus far and w thank Him for that. It is a worry when one hears a truckie heading in the opposite direction to us alert a truckie who is behind us of our being on the road, and the response “how many points do you get for a cyclist”. Ninety nine percent of the truckies have been great but it only takes one like we heard today to encourage people to pray.
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