Don't get off the bike!

First of all, I would like to direct all my readers to Craig's blog, craigacrossamerica.blogspot.com. Therein is contained an apostrophe to the Wind. It is brilliant, but what's more, it has thus far been effective. Since its writing two days ago, there have been no and/or tail winds.

Now a more pressing matter: everyone's unwillingness to dismount from their bikes. Several reasons exist as to why all Bike and Build members are inclined to stay firmly planted on or over their bikes:

1. Assassins. A game played where each person is given a 'mark.' The point is to kill before killed until you are the last person left standing. Once you 'kill' your mark, they give you the name of the person they have to kill, who then becomes your next mark. In our version, 'killing' consists of hitting the mark with a clean sock while not on the bike or in the church. This has caused massive paranoia. Today people literally packed a lunch and ate it on the bike so as to not have to stop at lunch. I'm at the library right now, constantly checking to see who comes in so as to make an escape if needed. My mark was bragging last night that he/she would do whatever it took to be the last one standing. But I have a brilliant plan: throw his/her sleeping bag outside tonight to see if he/she will run out to get it. If he/she does, he/she is dead. If not, he/she is without their sleeping bag. I'll laugh uproariously either way. Shazaam.

2. Mosquitoes. I swept today, which sometimes calls for slow going. But since there was a tailwind, the slowest I went was like, 11 mph. You would think this would be enough to outfly mosquitoes. Nope. Not a chance. I was literally getting bit on my bike riding 14 mph. Don't ask me to describe the madness that occurred once I stopped to help Michelle with her flat tire. (*note: a small ways outside Malta, our current town, was recorded as the highest density mosquito population in the world).

Ahh, Pen and Ian walked in! Paranoia requires me to flee!