Actually felt refreshed wakin up this morning…which has been rare on this trip! Got all packed up and had breakfast sponsored once again by Robbie the alum…some delicious Dunkin Donuts bagels and donuts…though only like 12 donuts so we were fightin over em.Steve decided to rack us out of town rather than bike over a sketchy bridge across the Ohio River into Kentucky…so for the 4th time in a ROW we didn’t get to take a good state line pic…blast! (Though it has forced me to make creative ones). About 12 miles in we got on the bikes to start riding.
Not since Colorado have we had scenery like this…Steve mentioned Kentucky and West Virignia were some of his favorite riding last year. Hitting some more serious hills than we’ve encountered recently, but nothing unbearable. We passed several SUPER nice horse farms with long stone walls lining the property and endless acres of green green grass.When we finally reached town we had to rack up the bikes one more time to zip over to our arrival/lodging spot at Community Alternatives…turns out Steve had quite the hectic day as he had accidentally went to the wrong place (some company called Access across town, who had nooo idea what he was talking about when he said “yeah, we’ve got our cycling team staying here tonight”). So we double pacelined it up to an awesome crowd (which apparently wasn’t the original plan…the real visit was tonight). It was about 3 pm by this time and we still hadn’t had lunch, so we said our hellos then packed into a conference room to feast on some Q’doba provided by Mike, a Pi Alpha from JOH North 05.
Afterwards we had just a short amount of time to try and shower 23 guys in one shower to get cleaned up for our dinner/party with the friends here. Just barely made it as people started arriving…and almost immediately the DJ had some music playing, kickin the dance floor into gear. I started to mingle when in walks Wes Cook…a fellow Gear Up ’05 cyclist from here in KY, with his girlfriend, Alli. Definitely one of my favorite guys on that team…it was great catchin up….but couldn’t for too long cuz it was time for some dancing!Spent most of the night bouncing around…dancing all wild with Ericka right next to the speaker to the Michael Jackson tunes, and with Janie and Veronica doin all the moves to “Shout,” and with Kathy the sweet 68 years young gal still full of energy. I asked one lady to dance and after at first saying no she kept coming up to me the rest of the night to show me her doin the twist moves. All in all it was a blast…tonnns of people there; we all had some burgers and dogs to eat for dinner. We took our group pic around 8:30 but the party didn’t stop there…friends were still hanging out past 9 as the music kept playin!
Finally the festivities came to a close, and I headed out with Wes and Alli and Brent and some of the other guys to grab a drink. He took us over to this really cool bar called Bazo’s where they had over 100 beers from around the world to try and a nice selection of fine Kentucky Bourbons. I sipped on a Duvel, which brought me back to my time in London at a Belgian bar down the street from my dorm…good stuff. Sampled Farley’s sipper of Woodford Reserve as well as Ezra’s “Samiclaus” beer from Austria which was apparently 14% alcohol…yikes. Afterwards Wes and Alli brought us over to Whitecastle for some late night eats…it truly is gross but delicious at the same time…snapped a pic of them making the bizarre little sandwiches.Now it’s about time to call it a night…yay for 5 hours of sleep!
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