Ride of Silence, May 15, 7pm

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the first Ride of Silence

In honor of those cyclists injured or killed by motorists while riding their bike

Please consider finding a ride in your community
And joining

Riding
In honor of those who can't
In honor of those who no longer have a voice

Thanks
Greg

http://rideofsilence.org/main.php

New videos have been uploaded

One of the things we were able to do in Austin was upload a few more videos ... if you are interested to see them, click the youtube link.

Another nice dinner spot

Simple dinner
Great view

Beaucolic East TX

Texas, east of Austin is beautiful. We've been biking through rolling hills with fields of wild flowers, horses, goats and beautiful cows: white, brown, black, mocca. California and Wisconsin are always competing for the happiest cows, but after today's ride I think the cows east of Austin must be the happiest.

Ernie!

We need "Ernie's" on our nations highways and byways...

Badger State Trail

Got out "the big picture" map last night...and we figure, after riding through the rest of TX, LA, MI, TN, KY, IL, MO, IA, IL...that we'll get on the Jane Addams Trail in Freeport, IL, and take it till it connects to the Badger State Trail at the border of Illinois and Wississippi; then ride that into Madison...about 7 weeks from now.

C'mon Heidi! Get up!
We've still got a long way to go!

3,000 miles, yo

Crossed that threshold today.

After a good, fun ~3 days in Austin, TX, with our friend Jordan.
Thanks for the hospitality!

Curious to see if TX East of Austin is any different than TX West of Austin, in terms of motorists; and people doing things other than driving.
(TX West of Austin was awesome.)
First impressions:
It is poorer.
It is blacker. (I can remember 2 African-Americans in hundreds of miles West of Austin; and today alone we saw dozens of African-Americans)
There are a lot of underground oil pipelines.
It is flatter.
Nearly got run off the road today, by a guy pulling out of a Baptist church. (I am guessing he was trying to be courteous to other motorists...and didn't see us? [With our lights and neon on]) Well over 90% of the motorists West of Austin were attentive and courteous. I can only hope that continues.

2,000 miles to go.
Approximately...