So far the trip has been lifechanging. I don't say that lightly either. We had my first century ride on Thursday. It was awesome! 116 miles across the desert. We were flying down the road. Very few…

So far the trip has been lifechanging. I don't say that lightly either. We had my first century ride on Thursday. It was awesome! 116 miles across the desert. We were flying down the road. Very few problems at all. It was good to get to talk to the team. We had to go through a border patrol checkpoint on our way towards Gila Bend. The Canadian of course told the border patrol guys that he was Canadian, but it was legal for him to be in the USA. They didn't seem to care, and they waved us through. Stopped for lunch and got Quiznos! It was so good. And then I got an icecream cone (butter pecan). This ride was a whole lot of highway!

The ride was very long and as soon as we got to the church I layed down on the floor and fell asleep for a period of time (not certain how long, I'd guess like 15-20 min). Jacob did a similar thing a short while later. He was chewing a pen and fell asleep with it hanging out of his mouth. It's on camera:

That was just 2 days ago and it feels like the distant past already. I can see this tour is going to fly by. Already my perspective has changed. I'm not certain how to explain it exactly, but I'll try my best. The thing was that I knew the details about what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we're trying to "change the world." I'm not anyone special. There are many people on this tour who have done so much good with their lives already and I just keep wondering how I was able to become a part of this effort. We've got an author, it seems like everyone else was a youth pastor at some point, song writers and then there's me. Someone who heard about the tour from a buddy in college and thought to myself, maybe I can finally do something that is for the benefit of others. It's so humbling to be a part of a team composed of so many great people. Listening to the guys from Blood:Water talk about what they were doing made it so much more real to me. Hearing and seeing their emotion during training somehow transformed what was a very good, but somewhat detached cause to something that is very personal to me. I was able to see for probably the first time that this was it. There was nothing else, no other agenda's. There is Blood:Water Mission changing lives and that's the whole story.