As we prepared to climb Raton Pass on the final day of Front Range FREEDOM Tour, someone played the song SNOWIN’ ON RATON by Townes Van Zandt. It was an emotional morning anyway, and the song apparently held special meaning for a few of our riders. I saw some tears as we stood in a […]

Front Range FREEDOM Tour wasn’t a bike ride. Colorado offers plenty of serious bike rides. Ride The Rockies. Courage Classic. Triple Bypass. MS 150. Anyone searching for a hard-core, go-at-your-own-best-speed, put-your-head-down-and-get-cranking bike ride has lots of options. The FREEDOM Tour would have frustrated riders seeking that sort of experience. Our team cycled more than 400 […]

It really wasn’t my fault. Okay, it probably was, but I’m not sure what I could have done differently to avoid this particular brush with disaster. Before we left, our church prayed for our team and sent us as missionaries. I’m glad I didn’t realize the prophetic implications of the sign behind the pastor. I knew […]

Kindness and generosity surround us. It’s one of the enduring lessons of RICH’S RIDE. Wherever we travel, Becky and I encounter people eager to help. Our Front Range FREEDOM Tour team found the same attitude everywhere along our route. Within a seemingly limitless sea of thoughtfulness, some acts of generosity are so unexpected and over-the-top […]

We’re home. Front Range FREEDOM Tour is finished. The tour was much more than I imagined. It’s hard to believe a week could pass so quickly, accomplish so much, and leave me so drained. Our team truly left it all on the road. Normally I’d feel guilty about all that didn’t get done. I couldn’t […]

Popular perception tells us life’s full of coincidences. Two years ago I met Pastor Todd while I was speaking at a retreat in Moab, Utah. This week we needed a church to host us in Colorado Springs. Todd offered his church and invited us to their neighborhood block party, scheduled for the same night we […]

On a cycling team, the soigneur cares for the riders’ physical needs. He’s the servant leader of the cycling world. Susie and Leroy are our husband-wife soigneur team. They volunteered to spend an entire week driving our support vehicle and making sure our gear gets from place to place. They meet us at rest stops […]

It’s an incredible thing to concoct an impossible vision and then watch it hatch before your eyes. Saturday morning I felt a bit like a mother goose as I watched the line of cyclists roll away from the Wyoming State Capitol building in Cheyenne. The chicks were leaving the nest of this God-inspired dream. Front […]