Since Erik is the photographer I’ll just toss out some thoughts.

7:50AM Sunday.

I did get the address of the local church but my riding partners have not cut up all that wood and are still “Sawing Logs”.

During the 36 months of preparations I sent a lot of stuff to all those who said that they wanted to go.  One of the items was a list of questions regarding your personal riding style.  Some like to get up early,  some like to get up late.  Some bikes can only go 100 miles so there are a lot of gas stops, others (Troy) can go over 250 miles.  Some like to ride then eat breakfast at 10AM, etc.

I think our group did fill out the survey and we sent our answers to each other.  If the others were like me they didn’t give it much thought.  Now I realize that it is very important if you were just to meet up with others to ride.  It doesn’t matter with this group because we are friends first and riding buddies second.

My planning was to get up early and get 1/2 of the days riding done in the cool of the morning…….Yeah Right.  I think over half of our check-ins were after 10PM but those were the days we made good miles in the dark with no traffic. What a great ride.

Eat Sleep Ride