Bike trip ends service term for couple

Tucson, Ariz.

Colin and Monica Bock's Mennonite Voluntary Service term ended March 31, but they won't get home until September. In mid-April, the couple began the trip from Tucson to Winnipeg on their recumbent tandem bicycle.

It's fitting that the Bocks are taking a bike trip after serving in a unit that operates the Zuni Avenue Bike Club.

Bikes were part of the reason the couple ended up in Tucson. Colin went to work for a community bicycle advocacy and salvage agency while Monica taught music enrichment at an elementary school. Both also worked for Community Home Repair of Arizona. Monica also started a choir for mothers of some of her students.

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