Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Day 9 - Build Day 2 - Good News Outreach

Woohoo, build day!!! You know what that means, right? We got to sleep in! Our bodies will probably never get used to the torture of Bike and Build sleep hours, so we make do with getting as much sleep as we can whenever we can. Every day has a different wakeup time, based on time expected at our next host and distance to ride that day (or if it is a build day).

What did we do today with Good News Outreach? GNO has a large number of permanent single-wide homes that are earmarked as affordable rentals particularly towards single parent families, all located on a large parcel of land. They've discovered a termite infestation on one home in the wooden support for the under-home fencing, which could lead to termite infestation of the entire home. Our task was to create an air gap so that there is no way for termites to migrate to the home. This meant lots of sawing and cutting existing wood and installing some new exterior molding pieces.

Not only did GNO provide breakfast for us in the morning, but they also provided lunch and dinner! We have not yet had an organization provide all three, and we are extremely grateful and full because of it. Thanks!

That's it for now... Tomorrow, Apalachicola!!

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