The 2008 Sea-To-Sea Bike tour: 219 cyclists. 6246 km. 3881 miles. 62 days. The largest cross-continental bike tour ever.
Starting in Seattle on June 28, and ending in Jersey City on Aug 30.

Why? This is all about raising awareness and raising money to help fight the root causes of global poverty.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Into Canada!

This is Heather here.

Art called. He had a good day. It was a breeze crossing the border. The ferry was about 10 minutes long. (Art thought the kids would like the ferry crossing.) They formed single line. Guards looked at their passport, checked a list, then onto the next person. Very quick. Art thought the prearrangements that were made really made the process very smooth and quick.

There was a party on the Canadian side, at a park right by the crossing. Goodies, Tim's coffee, red and white cupcakes, and lots of hoopla.

He had a good ride. Got another flat though, and his tire rims make it quite a struggle to change his tires. He had help, and has already been to a bike store to buys some more tubes -- he had an odd tire size as well.

He called from Roger and Deb Groetenboer's house -- other Redeemer College grads -- who had opened up their house for showers, laundry and a swim in their pool.

Now my kids are getting quite hungry, and a little cranky, so I'm off.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see you made it to Canada. :-)
Was good seeing you Sunday 5th/3rd ballpark.

Enjoying reading your posts.

-Dave Meekhof