Wake Forest and Chapel Hill

Since the last time I posted we've ridden from Greenville to Wake Forest, and from Wake Forest to Chapel Hill. As I believe other people have already posted the ride from Greenville to Wake Forest was a bit longer than it needed to be. We changed our trip directions to a route we had heard was shorter but ended up not leading where it was supposed to, so we turned around reverted to the old directions. It was a hot day but a really fun ride. I really didn't mind the extra miles, and since our directional error caused us to hit 88 miles a few of us debated throwing on another 12 and making it a century. Saddle sores and a swollen Achilles tendon got the better of us however.

The picture above and left is of me on a bridge on the ride from Belhaven to Greenville, and the one above and center is of Zach on the same ride.

On the ride from Wake Forest to Chapel Hill a few of us decided to take a detour through Durham and see the stadium(picture to left) in which Bull Durham was filmed as we as take an ad hoc tour of Duke University's Campus by bike. It was only a 30 mile ride so we had some time to kill and it was worth it. Pictures below are of Eric sitting on Mr. Duke's Lap, and of Catlin Luna riding up to the famous church on Duke's campus.

We spent today working at three different build sites. The group split in half and my group went to one site for the morning and worked on framing a house and putting blocking so that shelving, toll bars, etc. can be hung once the drywall is put up (picture to right of mike doing some blocking, and below that is Andy after we put some straw in his mouth while he was napping at lunch. Zoom in on his glasses and notice kim laughing on the side and me taking the picture).

We then spent the afternoon doing landscaping at another site. It was a very tiring day, especially since many of us seem to have picked up a cough/cold, but it was fun and fulfilling work. Even a few hours of steady work can drastically change the shape of a house and its awesome to be a part of that. Our build supervisor Toniesha was amaising. She was going non-stop and she does this stuff every day. She has some amaising energy. (Last picture is of andy at the landscaping site posing with weed whacker)