Day 16 Monday May 24, 2010 Distance 43.42 km. Time 2 hrs. 55 min. Total so far 1023.17 km. Elevation climb today 5112 ft. Today was supposed to be an easy riding day. We went through Boston Heights, Hudson, Streetsboro and Greensboro on Hwy. 303 East. Woods, houses and hills dotted the landscape. We stopped at Staples for help with batteries, the computer and the camera. I washed my face and hair there also. Then to get internet, we went across the street to Bob Evans Restaurant and had a big, farmer's breakfast and stayed for about two hours. Finally we headed down the hilliest road so far and were hot and tired when we came into Hiram and talked to Terry, Natalie and Susie at the Corner Store. Terry called the police for us and we went down to ask permission to stay in the town park but they said no much to Terry's Chagrin. It is strange that this is a bicycle route for the state and the towns don't have accommodations for us. We headed out of town and finally I told Dave we would ask the first person that we saw outside. We saw a patch of nice corner land and then Tony working in his garden. I explained our predicament and he said we could stay at his place. We set up behind the barn and later visited and heard his story. When Tony was 26 he came to the lowest point in his life from misuse of cocaine and whiskey. A friend helped get him into rehabilitation and he accepted Jesus as his personal Saviour and new Lord of his life and has been clean ever since. He and his wife Laura have been volunteers for SCORE-Serving Christ Our Redeemer Enterprises. They went to the Dominican Republic to hand out meals and Bibles and have been to Haiti after the earthquake to build and help with an orphanage. They are returning again in a couple of weeks. They are praying about becoming full time missionaries. They served us supper and we showed them some photos of family and they showed us slide shows of their projects. What an oasis to find after not being able to stay in town. It was all part of the Lord's plan for us for that day.
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