A-puke-alypse hits SUS14

We have left the bumpy, cracked roads of Louisiana for the chip sealed roads of Texas. The transition into Texas was unreal, it was flat and windless and then immediately a head wind hit and we got to ride on these beautiful rolling hills into Carthage.

Oh and that afternoon, we randomly road past a home with a zebra and I almost got to ride one!!

Our next day was my second favorite ride day on the trip... Endless rolling hills in the company of great friends. There was lots of chalking, yelling at the wind, laughing on the downhills, and peach juice running down our cheeks... Here are some pics

Emma!!! Loving or yelling at the hills.

Then castrophe hit. We got to Athens and found out that our group was falling like flies and within the hour our new host site was full of folks with their own trash bins and running for toilets. 3 days later our current count is roughly 17 riders having gotten the plauge and hopefully we are on the rebound.

Lucky for us, we happen to have a 3 day stay with Sally and Peter in Dallas and lots of beds for people to sleep in if needed. Our first build day was very sparse on rider builders but we still got an incredible amount completed on the home. We built with Habitat for Humanity for Garland, on a build site at a high school. The high school has a trade class that allows the students to learn to build a home and when they finish, Habitat trucks the home to a lot where the foundation has already been poured. I would have jumped at the opportunity to take a class like this in high school. Here is a before pic of all the work the high school students completed and all the work we completed.

Now it is time to pack up and get ready to pedal our bike the next 100 miles into Boyd, Texas! (Last minute reroute)