Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church has provided us with a bunk house. It is two rooms with 5 bunk beds each, three showers, three toilets, washer and dryer, 2 refrigerators and a pantry fully stocked with food. Each bunk had a goodie-bag with some hard candies, pen, carpenter’s pencil, and drinking cup, with logos of the Fuller Center for Housing and the First Methodist Church of Shreveport. This is a modest and working mission in an area of town that is blossoming for the effort
Today’s ride was more casual for me. I think I did some minor damage riding so hard in the heat yesterday, or maybe it is the accumulative mileage of 6 days of riding. Nothing a day of recuperation can’t remedy, and Monday is a build day so we won’t stress riding muscles. Right now it feels good to be off the bike, knowing we will be in actual beds for three nights. I’m sure come Tuesday we’ll eagerly hit the road again.
Back to the ride: It was another hot Louisiana day on bad Louisiana roads, but one was particularly enjoyable. It was a diversion that included Grover Jones Road between Parish Rd. 260 and then back on Hwy 80; an even stone surfaced road in good condition, until the bridge. The bridge wasn’t there, but under reconstruction. We managed to get through though, and Speedy Pete went back to warn the van driver not to come that way, for with a trailer it would have been impossible to cross and very difficult to turn around.
It just feels so good to have showered and be sitting in a bed at 4:30 in the afternoon. We’re unpacked and settled already- the window a/c is humming, many are napping, laundry is tumbling, and I just don’t know what to do with myself. I have a lot of video to go through for I’ve continued doing time-lapse of every minute from the morning devotional through the day to arrival. Maybe I should get busy. Better I should simply relax, maybe even nap.
Ruston to Shreveport LA
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