We had another big riding day today. We ended up riding 78 miles, but the terrain was pretty flat. However, my tail end was doing some pretty major complaining about sitting on that seat so much.
Chip, who we stayed with last night, took us on a tour of Richmond, VA this morning. It was very interesting in that the city was the capital of the Confederacy. They have this lane with memorials to all the confederate generals and presidents. It is just a little wierd to me that they honor these people to the extreme that they do. It was all very interesting.
We ended up riding through Jamestown, VA, which of course was one of the first settlements in our history. There isn't much there from the past, but they do know that it was there. We also went to this plantation that was settled in 1619 and has been continuously used as a plantation since then. It was called the Berkeley Plantation and they believe the place was the location of the first documented Thanksgiving Day.
After going through Jamestown, we had to cross the James River on the ferry. All in all, it was a really nice day. Again I missed going to church and have done a little study on my own, but because of the miles we had to go today, it wasn't much. Most of us pulled into camp only an hour or so before it got dark.
However, here is Sunday School lesson #3. This last week, I gathered a bunch of stuff that I was carrying and not using and decided I didn't want to keep pulling that stuff up all these hills and sent it home. Later, a good friend, Chris Patterson, gave me a call and we were talking about that and he mentioned that that is what we do in our personal lives quite often. We have baggage we carry that is just weighing us down. Sometimes we need to figure out what that extra weight is and get it packaged up and give it to God so that He can help us get rid of it. I can feel the difference just a little weight has made on my bike all throughout the day and we will feel the difference when our extra "Life Baggage" is taken care of with God's help as well.
The Berkeley Plantation. I am carrying the bread for tomorrow's lunches in my pot. Hope you are all well.
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