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Bull riding in Michigan!

lucky for me i broke my fall with my face. alex fell from about the same height but landed right on his hip. He was in alot more pain then i was.

The video right below is alex and the bottom one is john. This is johns second run his first time he lasted like twice as long.

Finished!

-Bittersweet-

Saturday was the last day of the tour we did 98km into Jersey City. The last 15km we had a police escort and even got to ride on the highway. It was crazy to get to the end and dip my tires in the water and to be able to say that its done. It was/is so surreal, it was like "now what?" some of us joked about jumping on the bikes and heading south. In a way im ready for it to be over but im going to miss the tour and the people on the tour so much. The week leading up to the end was incredible, i rode in really large groups almost every day making the most of our end time togeather. We finaly got hills and that made alot of us very happy. Climbing hills is the next best thing to climbing mountains. Anyways the week was incredible. Saturday night we had our last celebration service and it was really good, one of the best ones yet. That ended around 10 and then said goodbye to everyone and then we took off. We (Mom, Dad, Amanada, Darrell) drove right through the night and got home by 6:00 just in time for a quick nap before church. I got to see a bunch of friends and play hockey at church and that was awesome. Since then ive been packing for school and 2morrow morning I leave for school.

Thank you all so much for your support!

The End (for real this time)

Jon Elzinga is excited that we are soooooooo close to being done.Kyle, John and I partying it up the last week.The end tiring diping/celebrating like mad.

Jenna and I. I missed the funny face memo.

I got to sleep in a forest one night!
All 200 of us about to finish the tour.

The last wednesday

This week has been a week of alot of "lasts" everytime we do something we are like "thats the last time we will do that on a "-----day" example: today is the last time that i will ride on a wednesday on the tour. Today was the last day on the tour that I will ever ride sweep. Today is the last day that I will ride with team "g-unit" our nick name for our final sweep team (our full sweep team is called sweep team g). Anyways you get the point its kinda sad that we almost done im gonna miss so many people on this tour.





3 more rides

Alex is so cuteThis is the Chapel at Cornell College its part of the Ivy League of colleges including Yale and Harvard. We took a tour around it it was CRAZY. Its in the town of Ithica, the towns population is 35,000 in the summer and during the school year it is 65,000. This is a daily occurance, strongly discouraged by alot of people on the tour but deffinitely worth it. Nick Ellens is tucked behind this tanker.

Home!

Right now its 11:00 at night and it feels more like 3 in the morning. This morning i left Redeemer campus by bike to get to Saint Catharines in time to drive to the blue jays game in Toronto. The day was just incredible. Jenna, Aleida, Brian, Doug, Kyle, Theo, Eric and I all got to camp before noon and showered quickly and then left to go to the game. It was awesome. I havent been to a Jays game in years because im not normally really a big baseball fan but it was sweet. (they owned Boston) Then we all came to my house and ate and then we played some street hockey :) and then we all crashed and were watching a movie. (well about half of us were watching the other half fell asleep within a couple minutes) So i have had an incredible day and i think im rejuvenated for another awesome week of the tour.

Sorry i havnt been blogging much ive had internet issues a couple times and my computer died a couple nights ago on me... and well... ive been lazy.

The last night that we were in Michigan, Alex, John, Peter and myself went bull riding! It was INCREDIBLE! The story goes something like this.

Peter knew this guy named Tim and Tim is a bull rider/reptile collector. When I got into camp i showered and when i got out of the shower John and Alex said "hey bradley are you coming bull riding" and i was slightly hesitant at first thinking "um... thats a stupid idea if i ride a bull i could get like... really hurt and i still have a week and a half left on this tour" but then that hesitation was quickly replaced by "well frig how often do you get a chance to ride bulls?" (not to mention if John or Alex was going to do it i naturally couldnt be outdone) So about a group of 10 of us got a ride to the farm only 3 of us with the intent of actually riding the other 7 with the intent of laughing alot and enjoying the show. When we got to farm Tim brought us to his "warm room" this room is a heated shed where Tim keeps all his reptiles. He let us hold a monster snake and an alligator as well as look at all his other snakes. Including a Cobra and a Rattlesnake (the rattler was going crazy the whole time we were in the room) After this we headed to the bull ring. Tim explained the basics of the riding to us and then i foolishly volunteered to go first. I put on a hockey helmet and a safety vest (in case that i got steped on it would save my life) and then i proceeded to get owned by the bull. After this Alex, John and Peter went and then i decided to go for another round on a different bull. This time was much more successful and I held on for probably about twice as long (probably still less then 5 seconds lol)

Needless to say riding the next couple days was very uncomfortable and painful more so for Alex then the rest of us but we all made it. When people would ask me how it was and i had to describe it in short i would say "well it feels a little bit like i imagine getting hit by a train would feel like" but heck id do it again in a second.

THANK YOU so much everyone from the farm (sorry i dont remember all your names) for dinner and for letting us ride the bulls and for just being awesome.At the Jay's gameI know you can hardly see the bull in these pictures ill work on getting better ones from other people as well as a video soon enough.

Lawrance is staring the Alligator down and Theo is playing with a ginormous snake

Illinois, Indiana, Michigan

I dont know what to say so im going to post pictures.




Today we made it to Michigan! wow we have biked really far.
We decided it would be fun to lay on the tracks (Me, John, Theo)Trump Tower in downtown Chicago!
Doug, Alex, John, Me, Kyle touring downtown Chicago last night.
Stupid pictures are fun!

Into Madison, the end of week 6

Yesterday was our third "century" (100+ mile) ride in a row. It really didnt seam that hard because it was "only" 160km instead of the previous day's 180km. I decided that I wanted some alone time and I ended up riding by myself all day. I made good timing and got to camp by 3:30. It was really nice to have some down time. I was going to try to keep it this a secret so that my mom wouldnt find out but when I told Darrell he managed to promptly tell her anyways lol.Anyways I managed to break the tours fastest top speed. Its the blurry number at the bottom. (The top one is my current speed and the middle is my average) It was CRAZY fast, def finitely got the adrenalin pumping!
Today I woke up to it raining during the night. It was awesome. I love sleeping in a tent when its raining the sound of rain on a tent is flipping awesome. I got up really late as per usual on a "short" 116km day. Ate breakfast and then it started raining fairly good again so naturally, I went back to bed lol. I ended up leaving camp around 8:30 and then John Vanderveen and I started going really fast. We did the first 40km averaging over 35km/hr. It was awesome. After that we slowed down. I am now in Madison, Wisconsin for the weekend and Im very very thankful for a day off.

The Mississippi river on the way into Wisconsin!

Onto a new state! This one is way better then the last one.

Regularly we are reminded, especially by the older people on the tour that it is "not" a race that it is a tour but this video proves otherwise.