New Waterford. OH.

THE END! Courtesy of Ellen, Carole, Alice, and Steve!


Norm and Minerva!

Slept inside air conditioned barn @ the fairgrounds in Burton, they were spraying for mosquitoes. Luckily the a/c ran all night and drowned out the snoring of James and Big Eric. It is a hazard if you set up camp next to James, man, he sounds like you are trying to sleep next to a sawmill!!! Eric usually isn't too bad but in combination with James, and being enclosed inside the building it sounded like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! A least in the morning there were less skeeters to eat us @ breakfast.

The terrain is now becoming more hilly and my legs are feeling it, my knees feel strong when I ride and because of that I have been standing to hammer up the rollers. My thighs are really sore and until they get warmed up they feel like noodles.

Arrived @ camp early, @ 1245. We are stayed out in the hills, I am not sure there is a town even near where we were. This is one of the only places so far on the trip where my cellphone did not have any service. Verizon definitely had the best coverage of any of the networks. The excitement for the evening was a talent contest amongst the riders. It was Norm's 71st birthday, so he was the emcee of the whole night. We had purchased a blow up doll (not anatomically correct) for him in Cleveland and set it on his bike @ breakfast, he got quite a kick out of it, he named her Minerva, and she got to be an honored guest @ the show!
There were some great acts with several people singing the blues, I really enjoyed Debbie R.'s rendition of the Big Ride Blues. The evening finished off with "the end", see the above pictures!! What a great bunch of characters!