Day 12 Charleston/ Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
(x-posted in blog: Veritaz Productions)
haha ok right now 3 of us are awake and Tom is still asleep. Austin just yelled from the other room "who wants to wake Tom up?" haha... everyone said "not it" but I was busy getting the photos ready for this post and was only paying half attention. I was the last to say "not it" so now I have to go wake Tom up. Kind of an awkward thing to do. Maybe I'll jump on his bed? First I'm going to update.
Ok, yesterday was the most interesting ride we've had thus far... plenty of bridges to cross (literally) and obstacles to overcome.
The day started out on a great note: The Pitts, who we were staying with made us sticky buns and sent us on our way happy. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Pitt!!!
Nick and I kept stopping at all the little country shops along the first leg of the trip. We scored some free honey sticks and CHERRY CIDER from the Carolina Cherry Company on the side of the road off of 17 between Savannah and Charleston. The guy there was from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and he was so welcoming and awesome. Way to be a hero man! We LOVE the cider.
It's so encourageing to meet people who get excited about our project after only talking about it for 3 minutes.
So it's Sunday so we wanted to go to church but we knew that if we went in the morning in Beaufort than it would just get hotter and hotter outside and make it more tough for the guys to ride. We decided to leave bright and early for Charleston instead of attending a service in hopes of finding a church either in Charleston once we got there or along the way. Come about 10am Nick and I (in the car) were trailing the guys on the dangerous highway 17 and we started to see signs for little churches here and there off of the highway. We pulled over eventually and asked this guy at a canoe rental shop if he could recommend a church to us. He told us there was once close with a service at 11am so we thought hey, why not? Nick and I scouted ahead and checked the place out... it looked wonderful and was in just the right spot to have the guys riding through right around the time the service started so Nick dropped me off and went back to tell Austin and Tom.
So here I am, no shower, greasy hair, and wearing a cowboy hat to shield myself from the hot sun. Temperatures were starting to reach the 90's already and the guys had already come almost 35 miles or so. I walk into the church and they start the service a little earlier than 11am... before the boys could get back. I had a chance to chat for seriously only a few seconds with some of the people I was sitting with and they were really nice so I figured hey, I'll just save the boys a seat and everything will be great. Next thing I know the little church has about 40 people in it and they are asking if anyone has announcements. The old man with the old sailor tattoos behind me nudges me and tells me to stand up. Then again, next thing I know I'm standing up in front of a community of Southern Baptist people thanking them in advance for their welcome and explaining for my friends who are about to enter their service in spandex. As I'm about to sit down the doors open and in walk the boys in their spandex with their bikes and Nick. Personally, I thought it was hilarious. The church community welcomed us and we all sat together and listened to a sermon on following your dreams. Best sermon I've heard in a while. He was preaching on stepping out of mediocrity and having a VISION through God's eyes and not your own. Tom and Austin are a perfect example of people who are doing that right now. I am trying to make sure that Veritaz always has that type of Vision behind every project we work on. Anyway, we hung out after the service and talked to a ton of awesome people. This awesome boy Christopher even gave us a $3 donation! Thanks, man and THANKS JACKSONBORO BAPTIST!
the church
Tom, Austin, and Nick hanging out with some locals
Oh, wait, did I mention that the preacher's son is in a metal band? Thought that was great.
We met a wonderful woman named Terri while at church! She invited us to her craft store which happened to be along the rout so we met her there a little after church and she gave us free ice cream, cookies, and gatorade! She was super awesome. It's sure comforting to know we have people like her supporting us. Did you know that Mayfield's Turtle ice cream actually has peanut butter chocolate morsels in it that are SHAPED like turtles? That made my day.
Austin, Tom, and Terri
They were pretty excited to make it finally to Charleston. The thermometer was at 101 and had been over 99 degrees for the past hour. Despite the hot hot heat they're still smiling! These guys are solid.
Ok, so we eventually got back on the road after meeting tons of awesome new people. Everything went really well until about 20 miles outside of downtown Charleston... maybe less, I have no idea. It's really hard to judge how far you've gone when you are driving 18 miles an hour behind cyclists. I'm getting used to it though. Anyway, here we are trailing Austin and Tom because the road is REALLY busy and we wanted to stay behind them so some crazy car doesn't loose control and smack them. I look out the window to my left over nick and see two little kids waving at Austin and Tom. The little kids are riding little bikes and doing their best to RACE! This made me smile so of course I take out my camera and kick it into gear so that I can film the children racing our Rally Riders. Next thing I know, though, right as the camera is about ready to record, Nick gasps and I turn my head to Austin and Tom JUST INTIME to see Austin go down and Tom crash right into him and do a front flip over his handle bars. CRASH!
Some documentary filmmaker I am... First off, I ALMOST got it on tape but didn't and second, instead of filming them on the pavement right after they fell I jumped out of the car to make sure they were ok. No good footage haha. I got the aftermath though. Everything was OK except for Austin's bicycle. He rode the spare bike for the rest of the ride into town. Before that, though, we went across the street into the local fire house to clean up and invited the firemen to our event on Tuesday. They were super helpful.
By then it was basically feeling like we had been on the road for 3 days instead of 1. Thank GOD there was a bike shop not to far down the street. We had to wait a while to get to talk to the man there but once we did he helped us out a ton and is working on Austin's bicycle right now. Austin bent his rim pretty bad and screwed up his whole wheel. While we were waiting Austin kept moral high and entertained everyone.
Almost there! Almost there! We crossed the giant bridge here in Charleston and what do you know? A cop turns on his lights behind Nick and I... might have had something to do with the fact we were going like 20mph on the bridge and I was filming Austin and Tom out of the sunroof... anyway the cop must have changed his mind because eventually he turned his lights off and drove away. hahahaha!
Ok, that's what happened yesterday.. I have to go wake Tom up. Today we are gonna chill around Charleston and find people to come to our event.
MATT BRUCE is getting here tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to making him a part of the VERITAZ TEAM! Now the team will consist of Me, Nick Anderson, and Matt Bruce. Did I mention that Nick and Matt are BOTH red headed Iowa boys?
AWESOME!
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
ps> holy moly I'm excited about getting to Charleston and rockin and rollin today.
haha ok right now 3 of us are awake and Tom is still asleep. Austin just yelled from the other room "who wants to wake Tom up?" haha... everyone said "not it" but I was busy getting the photos ready for this post and was only paying half attention. I was the last to say "not it" so now I have to go wake Tom up. Kind of an awkward thing to do. Maybe I'll jump on his bed? First I'm going to update.
Ok, yesterday was the most interesting ride we've had thus far... plenty of bridges to cross (literally) and obstacles to overcome.
The day started out on a great note: The Pitts, who we were staying with made us sticky buns and sent us on our way happy. Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Pitt!!!
Nick and I kept stopping at all the little country shops along the first leg of the trip. We scored some free honey sticks and CHERRY CIDER from the Carolina Cherry Company on the side of the road off of 17 between Savannah and Charleston. The guy there was from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and he was so welcoming and awesome. Way to be a hero man! We LOVE the cider.
It's so encourageing to meet people who get excited about our project after only talking about it for 3 minutes.
So it's Sunday so we wanted to go to church but we knew that if we went in the morning in Beaufort than it would just get hotter and hotter outside and make it more tough for the guys to ride. We decided to leave bright and early for Charleston instead of attending a service in hopes of finding a church either in Charleston once we got there or along the way. Come about 10am Nick and I (in the car) were trailing the guys on the dangerous highway 17 and we started to see signs for little churches here and there off of the highway. We pulled over eventually and asked this guy at a canoe rental shop if he could recommend a church to us. He told us there was once close with a service at 11am so we thought hey, why not? Nick and I scouted ahead and checked the place out... it looked wonderful and was in just the right spot to have the guys riding through right around the time the service started so Nick dropped me off and went back to tell Austin and Tom.
So here I am, no shower, greasy hair, and wearing a cowboy hat to shield myself from the hot sun. Temperatures were starting to reach the 90's already and the guys had already come almost 35 miles or so. I walk into the church and they start the service a little earlier than 11am... before the boys could get back. I had a chance to chat for seriously only a few seconds with some of the people I was sitting with and they were really nice so I figured hey, I'll just save the boys a seat and everything will be great. Next thing I know the little church has about 40 people in it and they are asking if anyone has announcements. The old man with the old sailor tattoos behind me nudges me and tells me to stand up. Then again, next thing I know I'm standing up in front of a community of Southern Baptist people thanking them in advance for their welcome and explaining for my friends who are about to enter their service in spandex. As I'm about to sit down the doors open and in walk the boys in their spandex with their bikes and Nick. Personally, I thought it was hilarious. The church community welcomed us and we all sat together and listened to a sermon on following your dreams. Best sermon I've heard in a while. He was preaching on stepping out of mediocrity and having a VISION through God's eyes and not your own. Tom and Austin are a perfect example of people who are doing that right now. I am trying to make sure that Veritaz always has that type of Vision behind every project we work on. Anyway, we hung out after the service and talked to a ton of awesome people. This awesome boy Christopher even gave us a $3 donation! Thanks, man and THANKS JACKSONBORO BAPTIST!
the church
Tom, Austin, and Nick hanging out with some locals
Oh, wait, did I mention that the preacher's son is in a metal band? Thought that was great.
We met a wonderful woman named Terri while at church! She invited us to her craft store which happened to be along the rout so we met her there a little after church and she gave us free ice cream, cookies, and gatorade! She was super awesome. It's sure comforting to know we have people like her supporting us. Did you know that Mayfield's Turtle ice cream actually has peanut butter chocolate morsels in it that are SHAPED like turtles? That made my day.
Austin, Tom, and Terri
They were pretty excited to make it finally to Charleston. The thermometer was at 101 and had been over 99 degrees for the past hour. Despite the hot hot heat they're still smiling! These guys are solid.
Ok, so we eventually got back on the road after meeting tons of awesome new people. Everything went really well until about 20 miles outside of downtown Charleston... maybe less, I have no idea. It's really hard to judge how far you've gone when you are driving 18 miles an hour behind cyclists. I'm getting used to it though. Anyway, here we are trailing Austin and Tom because the road is REALLY busy and we wanted to stay behind them so some crazy car doesn't loose control and smack them. I look out the window to my left over nick and see two little kids waving at Austin and Tom. The little kids are riding little bikes and doing their best to RACE! This made me smile so of course I take out my camera and kick it into gear so that I can film the children racing our Rally Riders. Next thing I know, though, right as the camera is about ready to record, Nick gasps and I turn my head to Austin and Tom JUST INTIME to see Austin go down and Tom crash right into him and do a front flip over his handle bars. CRASH!
Some documentary filmmaker I am... First off, I ALMOST got it on tape but didn't and second, instead of filming them on the pavement right after they fell I jumped out of the car to make sure they were ok. No good footage haha. I got the aftermath though. Everything was OK except for Austin's bicycle. He rode the spare bike for the rest of the ride into town. Before that, though, we went across the street into the local fire house to clean up and invited the firemen to our event on Tuesday. They were super helpful.
By then it was basically feeling like we had been on the road for 3 days instead of 1. Thank GOD there was a bike shop not to far down the street. We had to wait a while to get to talk to the man there but once we did he helped us out a ton and is working on Austin's bicycle right now. Austin bent his rim pretty bad and screwed up his whole wheel. While we were waiting Austin kept moral high and entertained everyone.
Almost there! Almost there! We crossed the giant bridge here in Charleston and what do you know? A cop turns on his lights behind Nick and I... might have had something to do with the fact we were going like 20mph on the bridge and I was filming Austin and Tom out of the sunroof... anyway the cop must have changed his mind because eventually he turned his lights off and drove away. hahahaha!
Ok, that's what happened yesterday.. I have to go wake Tom up. Today we are gonna chill around Charleston and find people to come to our event.
MATT BRUCE is getting here tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to making him a part of the VERITAZ TEAM! Now the team will consist of Me, Nick Anderson, and Matt Bruce. Did I mention that Nick and Matt are BOTH red headed Iowa boys?
AWESOME!
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
ps> holy moly I'm excited about getting to Charleston and rockin and rollin today.
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