SammyRides Daily Blog April 3, 2011

Mile after mile after mile after mile on their bikes, slowly but surely the riders are moving on out of Texas. One more day in Texas and then, Louisiana.

Today, would you believe that John Bear’s rear tire went flat again? This time, we pulled up into a MacDonald’s parking lot somewhere near Cleveland, Texas, and watched for a

  half hour as John struggled with the tire. At least, we provided some entertainment for the people watching from inside and there was an opportunity for Mike Brown to take another one of his prize winning pictures, which will probably accompany this blog.

Speaking of Mike Brown, he pedalled some 50 miles today and hardly broke a sweat. And, to top it all off, the 50 miles were interspersed with typical Texas hills and heavily rutted roads.

Tonight, the riders will be in Livingston and tomorrow they will bike the 62 miles to Jasper, Texas. Jasper will be the riders’ Texas swan song, because after Jasper, it will be Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and finally, Florida.

Michael L. proudly wore his green Sun City Center shirt yesterday and could not resist telling the locals about our great city.

The riders noticed on the internet that the Sammyrides blog has logged 5,000 hits which means that a lot of people care about trying to defeat pediatric cancer and are also interested in the effort which the riders are putting forth.

Adolf, Mike, John and Michael are all fixin' to wish y'all a good night until tomorrow.  and send their love and best wishes to you all!!!     From Lois