The team peddles into Farmville, VA

Barn in Chatham VA

ED Millner joining the team in Chatham, VA

Alex enjoying rest

Strolling to dinner in Chatham, VA

Shade alongside Road outside of Danville

Jordan at hilltop in VA

Ride for Jim reaches Continental Divide

JD Rooney and Friends meeting in Winston-Salem

Amy and Doug Gardner early morning in Winston-Salem

Elliott joins team in Winston-Salem

Ride for Jim enters Virginia near Danville

We hit NC line en route to Sparta

Ride for Jim 2010 at my parents home in Abingdon, VA

Kayakers on the New River in VA

The team pulls a Sparta, NC hill in front of an approaching storm

Ride for Jim enters North Carolina

Small world......Bill Herman, stopped to ask us directions in Grayson County, VA....turns out he knew our Dr Jim Popp through his work with Novartis

Jack, bitten recently, tries his dog whispering tactics to evade a repeat

A farm scene near Green Cove, VA

Ride for Jim team members upon arrival in Abingdon, VA

Finally.....we reach the VA line

Sunset at the Breaks Interstate Park on KY and VA border

Celebrating our Abingdon, VA arrival over dinner with family

Howard's summer cyclist tan....and bike wreck knee "boo boos"

Jack's Kentucky badge of courage.....a dog bite

Howard sight's down the wheel he replaced in Damascus, VA

My Dad intercepts us in my hometown of Abingdon, VA

Nancy and Jack Haar joined us Berea, KY and here help Howard with bike problems

Ride for Jim enters the Kentucky Appalachians

Jack and Nancy Haar and I study maps for tomorrow's ride to Hindman, KY

Jordan cools off under the stars in Booneville, KY

We love the steep grade notice for trucks.....always signals the end of a steep uphill.....like this one outside of Hazard, KY

Handsome log cathedral in Buckhorn, KY

Horse hitched to our hotel in Lebanon, KY

Hillside cemetery in Beech Fork, KY

Trail encounters in the Land of Lincoln

Thunderstorms in Lebanon, KY delay today's ride

Alex crosses the Ohio river into Kentucky

A scenic Western KY soybean farm

Dog encounters are common in Kentucky.....Jordan out ran this one

Fellowship with cyclists and a free dinner all thanks to Bob and Violet Hardison of Sebree First Baptist Church, KY

Jordan with new friends, Pastor Bob Hardison and his wife Violet in Sebree, KY

Howard prepares to set up camp in Centerville, MO town square

Sunrise high atop the Missouri Ozarks

Indebted to the Bike Surgeons in Carbondale, IL.....repairs and service overdue since Pueblo, CO

Jordan and Howard cool off while Alex and I check into motel in Harrisburg, IL

Sunset over the Mississippi River

The group sets out across the Mississippi into Chester, IL and Missouri is in the rear view mirror

Jordan riding at 5:30 a.m.