Poor John is slogging it out in the heat for our troops - you'll remember from my earlier post that he's doing this ride to collect care package pledges for our heroes. Here is his first post from the road:

God! Is It EVER Hot!!! I'm slogging through temperatures near 95 degrees and a lot of humidity.

Finally got enough sense to take off my shirt. Real good idea for heat exchange. My mode of transportation has been to ride ten miles and then rest for 1/2 an hour before taking on the next ten miles... It makes for a real slow go, but I'm hanging in there. Final stop for today, Wednesday, May 18th, will be McRae which is still another ten miles. I'm dying in the heat, but I'm hanging in there.