Dallas, TX

DALLAS!! The famous Bike and Build house is in our sites! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to enjoy the ride in because of the plague but I did get to ride straight there in the van that morning and sleep for a good 3 hours before all the bikers started to arrive! By the time everyone woke up, there were 11 people total who were sick and 14 people in the van. And the total count as of right now is 16 total people with the stomach virus and two people with a pretty nasty cold/flu symptom sickness. It was a tough day for Bike and Build! But, thanks to Dan, the sick ones were shuttled straight to Sally's house and taken care of very very much. We all got a bed to sleep in and plenty of time to relax and get a little bit stronger. When the bikers started to arrive to Sally's, she was greeting them with either a chocolate or a vanilla milkshake and all the food you could ever imagine. There was an entire counter covered with entirely candy, another counter covered with entirely fruit and another counter covered with all of the ingredients she needed to make dinner that night. She had a smoker going in the backyard and was making brisket, barbecue ribs and pulled pork with baked beans and potatoes for dinner. And then literally anything you can imagine was for dessert. She also has a huge backyard with a pool, hot tub, fire pit, a huge slip and slide blow up toy, five different furniture sets to hangout in, all in different settings, and in the very back of the yard, she has a little farm with goats and donkeys. This house is so awesome! She also has a Volkswagen Beetle, Mustang (both convertibles), and three huge trucks that she is allowing us to take whenever we need them. Sally is everything the team needs right now, especially with half of us being so sick. It's a great time to recover and a perfect time to have some fun! That night, everyone just hung out and played in the slip and slide and the pool. I kind of had to hang back and watch because of the sickness but I had a great time being able to relax and not have to worry about anything. By the end of the night, I was starting to feel so so much better than I did earlier that day and I was thinking that I was going to be 100% solid the next day!

Sally was so gracious and wonderful for opening up her home to us like she did and allowing us to do and take what we needed in order to be comfortable and happy. If we had been camping or even if we had been in a church without couches that day, I would have been miserable and not had a good time at all. Thanks to the circumstances and the timing of the virus, I was taken care of so well and ready to take on the next day!