Catching the Light

I think we've invented a new long-distance biking strategy.  Rick Stiles and I have pedaled through enough 110 degree days and dodged enough RV's and three-hinged semis to rethink normal bike travel.  

So we came up with this new strategy:  "Twilight Touring."  Every morning we get up at 4 am  and load up our bikes.  At 4:30 am we are on the road pedaling our brains out.  By noon or earlier, we have accrued our 60-70 miles for the day.  Today for instance, we had pedaled 60 miles by 10 am.  From White Sulphur Springs to Harlowton, Montana.  

In this morning's early run we beheld panoramas that are hidden to road eyes from late morning onward.  But in those early morning hours, the antelope do play and the coyote cries, and the orbs of light begin forming around rocks and mountain sides.  

So get a fresh start tomorrow and try to catch the sun's orbs breaking into darkness and revel in the stuptified gaze of unsuspecting deer as you greet the new day.  

Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above,

join with all nature in manifold witness,

to thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love