leepy Hollow SP to Imlay City - August 6th

Got a good start this morning. Up at 6 and broke down the tent quickly as rain was forecast and I dislike folding up a wet tent. I miss Kobie a lot - he went back to Chicago for a leadership seminar. Got out of camp at 7:30 after a good bowl of oats and raisins. Good energy in there - just ask any racehorse!
After a few kms Albert joined me and soon George Vanderkeur. Now there is a racing team for you!
After some chatting they picked up the pace and kept it at 30 to 36km/hr - up the hills they dont go much slower. I managed to hang on and rode with them all day. They are extremely fit and fast after six weeks of cycling. and after only nine days I had my work cut out to keep up! We were early at camp, even after spending 45 minutes at MacDonalds to use their Wi Fi, we were amonhg the first two dozen home. George and Albert are machines on a bike - wow
Stopped at MickeyDs for a bite and a coffee, and it started raining - which it did for half the entire route today. That made it double as hard to keep up since the spray kick up of two bikes in front had me eat a lot of good American sand today. My eyes hurt tonight as the continuous spray of dirty water runs into the eyes despite the glasses that one can't see thru anyway  because of road dirt and fogginess. The 3 of us had a close call when a car turned in front of us and stopped almost blocking our way. Travelling at 30 or more kph we had only split seconds to react. Albert got through, and George made it barely not to land on the car's hood - and my only option was to take the scenic route off road over the grass onto the sidewalk. I guess in the rain the driver did not see us or misjudged our speed.  We thank the Lord for protecting us today from certain injuries!
We are sleeping inside a school in Imlay City today. The gym and hallways are lined with sleeping bodies and the hallways lined with bicycles. Our group now has grown to more than 150, but the 9 guys of Immanuel CRC are leaving us tomorrow after dipping their tires in Lake Huron, to complete their Lake to Lake trip with us. We enjoyed having them around, and hope the trip was a good experience for them. We certainly had plenty of rain in the week they joined us!   More rain forecasted for tomorrow as well, when we cross into Canada via the ferry. We are all super excited to do that and look forward to the warm welcome and the traditional and much loved Tim Hortons coffee with red and white cupcakes!  (To match our maple leaf flag) We enjoyed a wonderful chicken barbeque tonight and locals treated us to ice cream....yum!!!