day 2: Fargo, GA to Monticello, FL

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In ALL your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3: 4-5

79.48 miles – 1,598 ft climb

Wow! This has definitely been one of those days! One of those bad news/good news kind of days. Let me just give you a few examples:

Since we didn’t have cell service or wifi last night, we were still finishing the details of our route this morning after we had driven back into town. We then had some other directional challenges, causing Bruce to get started 2 hours later than planned, BUT he still made it to our destination by 4:30

We got confused at an intersection where the highway split and had to ask a guy for directions, BUT he was super nice and we talked to him for quite a while and then he ended up giving us a big donation for MS in honor of his Brother-in-law.

While riding along the highway, Bruce got attacked by a pitbull, BUT as it lunged (hard enough to knock his foot off the pedal that it was clipped into) it didn’t knock him over and only bit his foot which was protected by his bike shoe, and not his calf. He was able to keep on going.

It rained off and on most of the day, BUT it was a warm rain and Bruce just rode through it.

The bike path Bruce was supposed to ride on to our campsite was total mud and he wasn’t able to ride it, BUT it was right by a Fire station where he asked for alternate directions, BUT they gave him wrong directions and he headed out a few miles in the wrong direction, BUT I happened to pass him and honked and he came and got in the RV (this is allowed because A. he was only going off route to the campsite and B. he had already biked this street going the wrong direction) and rode to the campsite with me.

We got set up at our campsite and realized that although they advertised wifi, we had none, BUT Bruce went and talked to the manager and she moved us to a better site.

There was a SNAKE in our electric box at the 2nd site, BUT thankfully Bruce was hooking up the electric that time around and not me AND he didn’t get bit AND he killed it with my kitchen knife (yuk! I may have to use the whole bottle of Dawn and LOTS of scalding hot water to feel confident using that knife again … or possibly accidentally leave it at this campsite)

Hurricane Sally is really messing up our plans. I am not OCD, but I do like a good schedule. BUT God is in control and we can stay a few days at this campsite and wait out the storm. We have wifi and a swimming pool. What else do we need?