Today we woke up for a century ride. Actually we would be riding just over 100 miles today, and I think most of the team was pretty excited. Everyday we dedicate our ride to someone. Almost always we dedicate the day to someone we have met at a friendship visit. Today we dedicated the day to a guy name Hawk.
The team met Hawk at the friendship visit last night. He is a native american living at a group home off the reservation of his tribe. Apparently, he is from a poor tribe and they started a bit of a legal battle to get his trust fund. Currently, that money belongs to him and goes to BSW Inc since they are his care takers, but they were going to tribal court today to demtermine if the tribe can take control of the money and then simply put him in a nursing home on the reservation. It was a bad situation that the team was hoping would work out for the best.
It was somewhat appropriate that we saw a hawk flying around at lunch time, and we stayed at a high school whose mascot is tha hawk.
We had dinner at a place called eaglemount that started in the 80s by providing ski instruction to people with disabilities. It now includes, swimming, therapeutic horse riding, cycling, skiing, and a variety of other program for people with disabilities. At the end of dinner we took a tour of the facility, and the whole team was impressed with the great things Eaglemount was doing for people with disabilities. They really focus on abilities rather than disabilities.
We also provided a grant to Eaglemount and it was good to see our fundraising go to good use.
Andrew Green, a pi kapp from Truman is in Bozeman this summer so he also came out to dinner with us at Eaglemount, and we were able to head out a little bit before bed.
So far we've traveled 800 miles, and in celebraton we're sleeping in tomorrow since we don't have much planned!
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