day 17: day off in Dallas

You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working.

Exodus 23:12

25.44 miles – 1,130.3 total miles – 774 ft climb

Even though Bruce still had to ride 25 miles from Jay’s house to Carmilla’s house, this was officially a day off. While we were in the Dallas area, we also connected with some other friends from Wichita, Celinda and David Heinrich. This morning Carmilla took Celinda and I to Bear Creek Park to walk. It was such a well thought out park. Near one of the kids’ play areas they put outdoor exercise bikes and some other exercise equipment! Brilliant! They also had these fun sculptures that looked like nothing unless you looked at them at a certain angle, through these hoops and then a cool sculpture popped out. And forget doing a 5K, Carmilla made us walk 4 miles!

Hope and Wangui and Bruce
The exercise bikes near the playground.
Carmilla, me and Celinda after our 4 mile walk.
Upon first reading the instructions, I thought you were supposed to take a picture of the person looking through the hoop. Then we figured out you were supposed to take a picture of what you SAW through the hoop.
Just looking at this you can’t tell what it is supposed to be.
Looking through the hoops, you could see the Statue of Liberty. So cool!

We got Whataburger to take home for lunch. Yum! This afternoon Bruce did some work on his bike while I got caught up with laundry and made a Walmart run. They had Coconut Creamer. Hurray!

Carmilla helping Bruce find and repair holes in his inner tubes.

We decided to go out to eat in a little area Bruce had seen this morning on his ride over because it was closer for our sweet friend, Gwennie to come meet us. We chose a place called Tommy Tomale, but when we got there, it wasn’t on the cute street after all, so we decided to go elsewhere. It was only a LITTLE awkward that David, Celinda and Gwen had already gone in and sat down. We found the cute street and sadly it didn’t actually have any restaurants. So we ended up at Hard Eight BBQ. Not exactly a “cute little place” but it was great to catch up with everyone.

The whole gang: Christian, Wangui, Carmilla, Gwen, me, Bruce, Celinda & David. Hope had to work and Denzel is at college at KU.
All the good stuff!
Gwennie with Bruce and me

While we were driving around looking for a restaurant … no wait, it was actually when we were driving back to Jay’s to get Bruce’s flipflops … we came upon VanBebber Drive! I can’t believe it!

When we got home from dinner we looked up our route for tomorrow. Then some how we got side tracked on Google Earth and ended up looking up Carmilla’s parent’s home in Kenya. It was fun to walk down memory lane with her.

Hope and Carmilla, virtually going down the roads in Kitale to get to Carmilla’s parents place.

Carmilla’s dog Olivander, or Vander to his close friends, is the best behaved puppy ever. He has been trained not to cross this green line to go into the kitchen and he obeys. He will also wait to eat until they say, “Go ahead.” Wow! I thought it was a big deal that my dogs could shake hands.

Toe-ing the line … literally!
Carmilla’s house. Notice the Jayhawk sign in front and Harvey hanging out on the side street.

2 thoughts on “day 17: day off in Dallas”

  1. Best breakfast tacos (taquitos?) I have ever had were in Texas! They are also the masters of pinto beans in my opinion.
    Enjoying your journey so much – can’t believe 17 days have flown by. I’m sure it is a treat to get to see familiar faces as you visit friends along the way. Praying for you both!

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