Back to the Well

Finished the 2017 Tour Divide at 12:56 in the morning... still Canada Day in British Columbia so I was pretty stoked to say it was my Canada Day project.  This year's tour was different, a little bit harder, a little bit longer and certainly a lot hotter.  It's a very interesting place to be, both spiritually and physically.  Hard to describe but easy to feel.  More adventures are sure to follow.

Time and Space

I was riding along the Warm River in Idaho again and still thinking of our Peter, his wonderful laugh and how he would love to be kayaking this river.  Five years on and it still hurts and may even be more difficult to reconcile.  That's the time of which I speak.  The space has not really changed but that day it looked different in the sense of sentiment.  An optimistic river bubbling through the mountains.

A few minutes later I crossed another river and saw some folks fly fishing and there was a gentleman in a quad.  I waved at him, he waved back and I continued on to the next intersection where I took a much needed physical and emotional break. Soon after I stopped, this gentleman pulled up in his quad and smiled.  I could see a cane in the back off the quad and I noticed he had trouble speaking.  So I started right in, telling him about the trip and working with hand signals to answer his questions.   He had recently been hit by a stroke and speech was a problem.  Regardless,  we did our best to communicate and the interaction ended with a hug.  I still think about that day and that moment.  I often wonder if his name was Peter.