I talked to Abe a couple times this weekend as he had taken a break at a pastor's house. He said the positive thing about staying with people is that he sleeps better than in his tent. The negative thing is that people eat poorly, and he needs to maintain pretty high protein because of his energy output. It has also been raining off and on and was supposed to rain today, but he has (finally?) bought a rain coat and was going to go regardless, as he is well rested now, and needs to keep going to get in under the deadline. Right now if all goes well most likely he will be in Khabarovsk sometime on the 23rd, but he still has almost 500 miles to Vladivostok. And the very last date he can be in the country is Sept 4. Wednesday he said will be a difficult day because he will hit mountains again, so will have to do a lot of walking uphill.
Sunday was our anniversary. Certainly a far different day than we had on our 40th celebration last year! One of the men suggested that he just drive Abe and his bicycle to Khabarovsk. :) Obviously--he didn't get the idea. I would say at this point he is more into dogged determination than anything else. That would be symbolic of his approach to any task in life he takes on when the going gets rough.
The wonder is that we can talk regularly, although I probably will not talk to him again until Wednesday.
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