April 06, 1999

I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING

About four miles out of Concord, North Carolina, a truck that was in front of me pulled off to the shoulder and the man driving it motioned for me to stop. I thought that maybe I had did something wrong. Instead, he just wanted to talk for a few minutes.

It turns out that he had seen me several miles back and he wondered why I had the cross on the back of my safety vest. I told him what I was doing. Before he left, he slipped three dollars into my hand and said thank you for my being here. He said that the area that I was pedaling through needed a lot of prayers