Day 3

Today the riders went from Rhode Island to Long Island. The weather was pretty nasty in the morning and didn't improve much throughout the day. I'm proud to say everyone toughed it out and made the ride though. We had a nice ending at Eisenhower Park for one of the 911 memorials. The only bad thing to report is one of the riders bikes jumped off the back of the truck while I was driving. The back wheel got bent a little but was easily and quickly fixed. We also had some issues with traffic...several people got annoyed by our slow convoy and tried to cut it. Hoover from FDNY took out a couple, a cop jumped out of his car and screamed at another guy that tried to break in twice, and I got to run a guy off the road in the Tx truck. It was entertaining, but most importantly, we kept the riders safe. We also got free tickets to a Mets vs Florida game so a bunch of us went there in ambulances....not safe but funny. The game had a 2 hour rain delay so we made the best of it by creating our own pub crawl in the stadium. All in all a good day!

Day 2

Day 2 went really well. The comraderie this year is phenomenal! What usually takes 3-4 days to accomplish, took this group a day and a half. We also got to take a 2 hour ferry ride from Mystic, CT to Rhode Island. We had a few near misses on the seasickness but everyone pulled through and we didn't lose anyone to the murky waters. In the evening several of us played what I think was the best game of phase 10 EVER! There was beer, a goat, a jar of pickles and a dart gun.....you do the math.

Day 1 - Boston to Rhode Island

Day 1 took the riders from Castle Island in Boston to South Kingston Rhode Island. They rode about 60 ish miles today that was pretty uneventful. Boston started us off very chilly then it got a bit warmer then back to cold. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy. My Texas blood is not thick enough for this weird East Coast weather. ;-) The pic below is courtesy of the awesome firemen at Stoughton MA fire station who let me climb on their roof to get it. I was called Rapunzel several times and also encouraged to not "jump." Had they had one of those old school trampoline things to jump onto I totally would have though! Time to get some rest. More early to rise to hurry up and wait then drive to NY.

On the road to Boston....

Here we are 2000 miles later....We left Austin at 0800 on Wed morning and arrived in Boston yesterday around 4pm. Other than breaking the lense protector on my camera and almost being "leased" to some back woods type folk in Tennessee by my "friends," the trip was fairly uneventful. Now here we are at 0500 getting ready to start the day. Tune in later to see how the first day of riding went for Mark and Dan and to see how my day of driving through Boston and Rhode Island goes.