Time to catch up a little. Here are some highlights from the last few days. On our rather long ride from Holland to Grand Rapids on July 4, we rolled through beautiful farmland, with flags flying from fenceposts and silo tops...gorgeous American experience. Luckily I had published our route on our website, and though we deviated slightly, Pete's wife Steph, and their two kids Charlie and Neva, and family friends Ken and Priscilla found us in the shade of a tree neer a massive silage. I'll always remember how happy Pete's kids were to have found him, and how cool it will always be for them to remember what their Dad did on this unusual adventure. Next day after staying in a hotel with a POOL we rode down into GR to the brand new GR Bike Park, a reclaimed baseball field now serving as a roller course for BMX'ers. We played in a BLAZING hot sun for about 30 people in a benefit for a Coalition to end Homelesness, in conjunction with the Majic concert series. We were joined by Bill Vits from the GR Symphony, he played bones, and a Sousaphonist named Karen who brought her horn on a bike! After going to bed early we rolled at 6:30 am with Phillis Englebert riding along and supplying all our food for the day, we rode on way back, rural roads, beautiful... altogether we rode a new record 54 miles, ending in Grand Ledge witrh a dip in Pete's sister Sue's pool... Wow were we cooked, 96 degrees, 54 miles, pulling a piano, a set of drums, a heavy cooler, an amp, a guitar, and all our personal things... I'll never forget it. We were then picked up by one of the projects greatest supporters, Chuck Hillary. Chuck drove us to his home where his wonderful wife Nadean fed us ( a veteran of the Cordon Bleu Ecole), and put us all to bed for 11 hours of sleep. I woke up with bags under my eyes like barnyard doors... Nadean is making breakfast, then Chuck takes us back to the bike where we'll ride 16 miles to the place we'll play tonight as a fundraiser for the Playa Del Carmen Health Project administered through MI State University, a surgical intervention program for Mayan kids. We're actually succeeding in our efforts at raising needed funding for worthwhile groups, we couldn't do it without people like Chuck and Nadean. Well, time to get going...