July 28th
From Ed Chasteen
Way to go, Jack. Jack “Miles” Ventimiglia is Editor of the Liberty Sun. I email him all the stories I write about my ride. He chooses the one to run in my Greater Liberty column each week. In the paper that came out last Thursday, Jack also wrote a glowing endorsement of my mission and my life. He urged readers to support me. Today in the mail I received a hundred-dollar check wrapped in his column.
Several other checks came in other envelopes. One letter carried foreign stamps and was addressed by hand in a beautiful script with fine flowing lines. But the envelope was empty. The clerk at the counter said they had not noticed it was empty when they put it in my post office box. She offered to trace the letter if I could identify the sender. The return address was wondrously written, but neither of us could make out what it said. I thumbtacked it to my office bulletin board. I’ll admire it as a work of art and wonder what might have been inside and what unintended destination it reached.
Visions of a hospital bed come as I stop to drink out on 210 just a few miles from home. I’m riding on dead legs today. It’s not fun. An ambulance picked me up off the street and took me to the emergency room the last time I ignored the signals my body was sending. It’s only two o’clock in the afternoon. Good dark won’t come for seven hours, giving me time for 70 miles or more. Instead, I turn and ride home. Being out on the road today just doesn’t feel right.
I have now ridden two-thirds of the miles I promised to ride. But I’ve raised only one-tenth of the money. I’m not feeling optimistic about reaching my fund raising goal. I’ve done most everything I have the brains to think of and the energy to do. I need help. Please buy a mile. Go to http://www.greaterliberty.org/
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