Welcome to Calgary
What a great day!!!!! We have arrived here in Calgary and we are all very excited to have finished the trip. We left Nanton extra early this morning in hopes of avoiding the wind. We had a quick breakfast at a local diner and hit the road with lots of determination and energy. The morning was very pleasant and the wind was much less than yesterday. We figured we were about 45 miles from Calgary so we did a turn of about 24 miles and then took our first break of the morning. By this time the wind was out of the west and didn’t slow us up at all. As with the past couple of days, we had lots of sunshine. After about 40 miles we were suddenly at the top of a hill and all of a sudden we could see downtown Calgary in the not very far distance. This was a great photo opportunity so took a couple of pictures.
Once we got back on the bikes, we were all really pumped about being this close to our destination. After about another 10 miles or so, we all of a sudden hit the Calgary city limits sign and our goal was achieved!!!!! By this time traffic on the hwy was getting pretty busy so we pulled off to the side and took lots of pictures of the city limits sign. We shared high fives and hugs and tears of joy. We were all pretty excited about finally getting off the bikes and thinking about heading home to our families.
After all the pictures, we headed to our hotel which is near the Calgary airport. We stopped and had lunch at a local bistro and enjoyed the Calgary sunshine. After checking into the hotel, we did our usual hot tub relaxing and then got changed and went to dinner. We are now getting repacked and planning our exit for tomorrow morning. We have a 2:10 flight to Dallas and then mom and I head to Austin and Raleigh goes to Houston.
We are all really ready to get home to our families and friends. This has been a long almost 5 weeks but it really has been everything we thought it would be . We knew it would be difficult at times and spectacular at other times. The opportunity to be together as brothers with our mom was very special and one we are very grateful for.
The support we have received from family and friends is something that we will always remember. Thanks to everyone who has sent messages of encouragement, they really were inspirational and helped us all along the way.
Of course one of the primary reasons for this adventure was to raise money for three very important charities. To those of you who have made donations we sincerely thank you from the bottom of our hearts. All three of the charities are very special to us and we each have a personal connection to them. We still have a bit to go to hit our overall goal but I’m sure we will soon.
I look forward to seeing everyone when we get home. I hope your summer is going well.
Thanks, Bobby J
