Thank you everyone who came out to show support for our ride. The first part of the send off was a beach potluck that turned into BYOP: "Bring Your Own Pie." So much pie! You should see Megan's bag after she tried to shove the leftovers in her back pannier (just kidding!) The Chair of my department at DePaul came, my old roommate Elise and her boyfriend Chris, friends Jenny and Suzanne and Carolee and Tony and Mary and her family in town and Emily from MCA and Chad and his friends from Wisconsin and Arline and Alie and the Elite Peloton and you can see the photos of the excitement. Chris Brunn took some great pictures with his new camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbrunn/page1/.
At about 2/3pm, the Elite Peloton (http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=peloton) rode 40 miles north to Zion State Park. The pack consisted of Megan and myself, Matthew from CBF, Andrea from Germany and Stacy from Stacyland. Traveling the very nice bike trail along the metra line was a refreshing change of pace from the downtown streets. Watch out for this bike path, though. It did stop suddenly in the middle of nowhere and we had to stop at a gas station to ask a very nice young man with bedazzled and gilded teeth how to get back on. We went through the Ravinia crowd waiting to see Lyle Lovett and stopped at a lovely gazebo that was a memorial for an 11 year old girl who died of leukemia. We arrived at the park exactly at sunset with the sky a beautiful stratification of gold and blue. Dave F. had ridden his motorcycle ahead of us to reserve a space and prepare the campfire for our arrival. Steph L and her boyfriend Dave reserved a campsite nearby and came over to join in the festivities. Later, Nick and Aaron B arrived on their motorcycles, killed a bottle of whiskey and put out the fire long after everyone went to bed. Or should I say, went to Thermarest.
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