I can't remember much from this day. Just mostly things from the host. Today was the first day we had a rider join us, Casey's dad rode along with us for the day, but he was way ahead so I never saw him.
I was with Claire and Chris and we stopped for coffee at a little diner, sweep caught up with us but we made pretty good time after that. Chris claimed he used to play a game with his siblings where when they say road kill, the first person would claim "I one it," and then each person would follow it with I two it, three it, etc. Eventually the last person would shout, "I eight it" and then everyone else could mock them for a while.
We were rolling along coming down a hill, and I saw a police car up ahead, I didn't really think much of it except I would need to move into the lane to get around. Once we got closer, I saw our trailer, and everyone stopped in the parking lot, so we stopped to see what had happened. One of our riders, Emily, got swiped by a car going in the same direction that turned right in front of her. She was alright, and I had heard enough of the story to know she was okay before I was able to get too worried.
When we got to the host, I was sitting in the hallway and overheard the pastor talking to another helper about a funeral. Except they were very casual about it. acting like it was no big deal, and it wouldn't be the end of the world to miss; not something you would expect to hear from a pastor in a church. Later I was talking to the pastor and she told me there was a very famous funeral tomorrow. The town was going to recreate the funeral of a lady who died 150 years ago. Apparently she donated a lot of money and land to the tow, and they had used her house as city hall until recently when the historical society took charge of it. Basically this was a very bizarre thing to hear about, especially without knowing any of the back story.
My group was on presentation team this week, so on nights where there are several hosts around, we give a little presentation to them mostly about Bike & Build. Tonights presentation turned into a conversation about the struggles of affordable housing in small towns and about how most people are uneducated on the issue or think its not a problem in their area. After tonight, I think we should change our presentation to focus on affordable housing as well as B&B..ya know because we're supposed to be spreadig awareness on the issue along with biking and building.
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