Ontario to Boise —65 mi, 105 km
This morning I started late. My group had sweep team duty, which involves serving breakfast, cleaning up the camp, and loading all the camping gear in the truck. Around 9 a.m., we were done and could leave. Normally the sweep team also sweeps the route, which means that you can’t leave anybody behind.
It was a tough ride today – 65 miles, just over 100 kilometers. This is still dry country; however, we rode through valleys that were irrigated. My companion on the ride today was Ed Gringhuis. He is from Ontario and is board member of Coram Deo International Aid, an organization working in Haiti (for the Haitian people – his daughter, Kim, worked in Haiti two years ago). Of course, we talked a lot about the development work in Haiti.
We entered the state of Idaho, and Ed took my picture with the welcome sign, even though the sun was completely in the wrong corner.
The weather forecast had said that there would be a Southeast wind. We had the wind against us, because the roads we took were mainly going in Eastern and/or Southern direction. We are camping now on the grounds of a big school in Boise (Idaho), the Timberline High School.
It is a nice school. You see on the other picture a part of the school entrance and also our kitchen trailer. Our kitchen staff consists of volunteers and they make very good food. I lost weight in Haiti while I was training for this ride, but in these first two weeks I don’t think that I lost any, thanks to the good food. When we bike, we burn a lot of calories.
Today is Saturday and that means that the big trailer has to be cleaned. You can see that many people have their two baskets in or beside their tent.
The team on duty will clean the trailer when everybody has taken the baskets out. Normally I use one basket for clothes and stuff that I don’t need this week, and the other for things I do need. That way I only have to take one basket to my tent everyday. This past week when we were in Huntington there was a strong wind, carrying a lot of sand inside the trailer, so the cleaning is really necessary.
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