Jim “Jimmy Bee” Bodmer was doing a 34-mile day into Damascus with two friends, Polyster and Archer. They stopped at a shelter at dusk for dinner and then did the last short stretch in the dark. “As we got to Damascus, I had been singing ‘I See the Light,’” Jim said. “Up ahead we could just make out the lights in the valley where Damascus is and I said, ‘I see the light.’ Just then a bolt of lightning struck nearby. I could feel the electricity. Polyster turned to me and said, Jim, don’t do that again.’”
