The Ride is Done, But We're Not.

Tomorrow we're done. That sentence was the sweetest thing I have typed in a month.

A little over a month ago I wrote a blog about how important College Station was to this trip. Even in writing that post I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that we would actually eventually be back here. There was nothing sweeter than finishing a hundred mile day in the Promised Land. Just to have something so familiar around me that has shaped who I am today made me feel like the last month didn't even exist. I can't put into words what it feels like to be back in this place and be 100 miles from home. That huge number seems like something so minor to stand in the way of the three of us and a what I hope to be an awesome homecoming.

But as I sit on the eve of the end of this trip there is so much racing through my mind.

Physically I feel fantastic at this point. It's a little terrifying to admit that I can feel fantastic after a hundred mile day and almost a 2000 mile month. To see the extent that I can push my body on any given day continues to blow my mind. But what's really on my mind is the reality that it's over. Don't get me wrong I am more than ready to step off this bike and slip into a coma where I don't wake up till the fall semester has started. But I have invested almost all of my emotional and mental energy into this trip over the last two years. Wendie's Wish exists as a product of this trip in a sense. And I have spent the last month investing more than all of my physical energy into it and in less than 24 hours I will be home. No more bikes. No more camp sites. No more videos. Done.

So what's next?

We grow.

We grow until the community doesn't want us to grow anymore. We serve until we can't serve anymore. We love until we can't love anymore. Then we continue to do those even past that point. A bike ride will not help a family and it won't change a life. It maybe changed my life as a rider but it won't change yours. It serves to get your attention. To spark something in you that motivates you to be a part of something bigger. And we hope that bigger exists within Wendie's Wish. But if it doesn't, we hope it turns into a flame to serve someone else.

So you've followed us, you've prayed for us, and you've encouraged us. But the truth is we don't need it. There are a lot of people that need those things from you but we are not those people. However, we want to serve those people. So help us serve them.

Thank you guys for an awesome month. Y'all have been fantastic. Tomorrow we party. Goodnight.