******PHILLIPINES RELIEF RIDE!!!!*****

Hey

Lets try and do something good while having some fun as both the biking season winds down and the Thanksgiving Holiday begins. We all have such abundance in our lives and our cycling lives are just one manifestation of it: we have the time, the opportunity, the equipment, the locale, and, most importantly, the camaraderie and friendship that makes it all worthwhile. I think we could do a 25 - 30 mile ride on the Kingston-New Paltz rail trail over the Thanksgiving weekend (group consensus as to the day) and tap our friends to sponsor us. If we each get 5 people to do one dollar a mile we can raise a nice piece of change and donate it to Red Cross or Oxfam or something. If you are in, I suggest you post a note here and then refer family and friends to view it and leave their pledge as a comment, this way we can track it. Either way, lets go for a ride over that weekend - just as a way of saying 'Thanks".

Going Postal!!!

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"  OK, so maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but Richie the Hammer and I went out for a ride in some threatening, impending, potentially moist weather. Actually, it turned out pretty nice. We went out on the Kingston - New Paltz rail trail setting out from the trail head off Rockwell Lane. Down to Rosendale trestle and back. Nice ride.++++

********   NEXT - IMPORTANT - URGENT - READ THIS **********

Most of us are traveling between now and Thanksgiving. I propose one last really good ride before weather forces indoors for the season. I don't care what the route is and I am growing weary of being the denmother. YOU GUYS DECIDE - (this way I get a turn to bitch). I will be up in Ithaca on Thanksgiving itself but can do the other three days. Please bang heads and come up with something.

Upcoming Events

I need a "preview audience" for the talk I will be giving in Nashville the week after next. If anyone is willing it should only take about 15-20 minutes. Let me know if you can.

The second item is Hockey game friday night - I have four tickets (one for me, obviously); if anyone is in, let me know. Game time is 7:30 (I think). We could also combine both things if it would work.

Lastly, weather permitting maybe a ride this weekend?

If you can do any of these, let me know.