Aliens at the VLA, a crash, a link to video interviews & few good stories...

Two days ago, we rode out of Quemado, NM to Socorro, NM... On the way we saw the huge satellite dishes featured in the movie "Contact," I've never seen it, but have some of the sound track... anyways, they were huge. They're called the VLA -Very Large Array. They move on train tracks and are huge. I'm not really sure what they're for and we didn't catch any Aliens in New Mexico, if we did, I would've posted a picture for you. My good friends Dustin Burkhart and Anne Jackson www.flowerdust.net are holding up a marker board in front of them. At every water stop the drivers hold up a sign with encouraging, funny, crazy or random messages for us on the board...



Just yesterday on the way to Carrizozo, NM we rode past White Sands Missile Range... We stopped at a Rock Store where the owner offered Katie Pilman and I some Apricots from her trees cause she couldn't eat them all herself. We got a few for the team and ate a few before she told us that we were only 15 miles from where they tested the first atomic bomb. Hopefully we won't grow any extra eyes or something?!
Yesterday, my good friend Ian Pietz tried riding without hands and rolled over his front handle bars. He's ok now other than a few scratches and a few broken parts on his bike. But he's earned the nickname Eagle, for trying to fly on his bike...
Then today we rode by the biggest Pistachio I've ever seen! I wish I was tall enough to take a bite?! Ian Pietz and Dustin Burkhart are getting some shade in this picture...



Then, here's a little challenge for all of you. Get to know the people you come in contact with in life. During this trip, I've gotten to spend time talking to team members. Riding ahead to catch up to some of them, hanging back to hear their stories... Finding out more about the roads their lives have travelled, the challenges they've faced and how they've ended up on the Ride:Well Tour. I've heard the story of a friend who was told he'd never walk again and now has run a few marathons and challenges other people to run. Another that left his job to be a part of the Ride:Well Tour. We're surrounded by stories of champions. Learn to listen to and cheer on the people that God's put in your life.



Another good friend of mine is posting some interviews on youtube so you can meet the team on his blog at: www.brianmulder.net so hop on over and check his blog out too. Also, for more blogs from the team, be sure to check out all of them on the ridewell site at: www.ridewelltour.org -amazing stories and so much more!