Blog Creation

Okay, so the background photo is a complete misrepresentation, so sue me. Yours truly has decided he must go on another one of these bike rides because he won't be able to go on them much longer. Plus, other than me having to buy a new mountain bike, my wife encourages it because she enjoys the quiet, clean house and being able to enjoy chick flick marathons without the juvenile sexual background banter. So at this point, I'm not even sure who's in (Sloth motto: "I'm out"), other than me, Hunter and I think, Alan who will just mysteriously appear from points west like Ted Kaczynski coming out of the woods.Of course, the trip out involves a stop in New Orleans (and, yes, I guess it coincides with Southern Decadence again. Coincidence? I think not.) And then we get to head to Arlington, TX to see the Noles begin their juggernaut to National Championship #4. (what could be better than Cowboys and Indians in Texas?)  From there, a couple of boring days to drive to Idaho City (Hunter says: "Kansas is why God invented flying - though we will actually avoid Kansas and go through Colorado, which may actually take longer since pot is legal there but we wont care). I'm guessing Idaho back woods doesn't have great cell coverage (Verizon: "When cows have cell phones, we'll put towers out there"), so updates will be spotty, as usual. Stay tuned...