All of the revolutions of our pedals have been for a single cause, One Revolution at a time will have propelled us ~3,000 miles at the end of today! Shortly after 08:00 on Wednesday morning, we're squaring away our gear and cleaning up the house to be gone for a few days. We'll be striking out shortly for an 80 mile day of easy Florida pedaling to land at St. Augustine late this evening. Iz and I pedaled an easy forty miles yesterday from Fort White to Gainesville to be legit about our distance and had the pleasure of connecting with one of my best friends on the planet; Kenyon. After an easy day of riding and chatting with myriad cyclists in High Springs who were participating in Bike Florida we enjoyed a coffee at 8th Ave Coffee Bike Shop. While there, we borrowed a bike stand and cleaned our chains and gears to be spinning smooth and clean on our final push. Heather, another of my best friends on this side of the Sun, will join us for our final day to the Atlantic coast. Israel has been great; he's gotten stronger, lost weight, is really thinking on his feet, is slowly starting to be self motivated and I'm sure he's had many growing experiences..besides all that, with pedaling a bicycle 3,000 miles he must surely have learned much of perseverance and exercising strength of mind over strength of body. Overcast day so far, I'm hoping for glorious sunshine sometime shortly after we get rolling. Any way about it, I think my mind will be laden with reflecting today and I'm expecting mild melancholy from feeling the end draw nigh. Looking forward to playing with the smart phone though and letting it track our route so maybe I can learn how to backlog our entire trip and post a google map of our journey to inspire One Revolution.
It was great here in Gainesville to chat with Ms. Christian's students at Eastside High School and then some of them afterwards at the 'Of Mice and Men' party. You all are great students, I hope if you remember only one thing from Israel and I spending time there with you that it is something to inspire you to inspire others. Focus on your task at hand, take it one piece, one sentence, one step, One Revolution at a time...it'll make the task more bearable and before you know it: paradise! Do yourself a huge favor, don't count the pages of an assignment, just jump right into it and love what it is. Stay focused, shut off the tv, video games and phone sometimes and pick up a book, find an adventure. We're living on a beautiful planet at a wonderful time to be alive; go live!
May peace and meekness guide your heart. Love someone today, embrace them like you will never have the chance again.
One Love, One Heart, One Revolution!
Joshua and Israel
well sad to hear that this would be the last week here in Gainesville. Hope you all had fun in st augustine. should go and see the castle, been there its haunted and totally awesome. just dont enter the dungeon, you'll see and slightly hear something supernatural . but the waters are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful too. give a big southern style hug to iz and yourself for me.
ReplyDeleteGod bless on your next big revolution!!!!!! ;'D
Thanks for the visit & I must say, WE ALL enjoyed you also!
ReplyDeleteYou've taught us a lot & I appreciate it & your visit.
Hope it wasn't our last time meeting:)
Be Safe...