http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/ Bookends Tour 2005 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:40:19 GMT brebo92101 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/391 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/391 As what I call "The Year of the Bike" comes to an end and I am tying up loose ends I finally place fingers to keyboard to write my personal thoughts on THE Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:58:24 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/390 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/390 This will be my last report. I have encouraged the other five members to also write summaries, so hopefully you will be getting other points of view. These Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:31:47 GMT Ken King http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/389 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/389 First of all, thanks to Eric (and sometimes Bonnie) for all the mapping and for keeping you all informed of our adventure. Thanks, too, to all five of my Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:18:14 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/388 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/388 I guess we were all hoping that the last day would be a nice easy cruise to the sea under sunny skies and a cool breeze. But the Fates decided differently for Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:51:18 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/387 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/387 By the end of the ride we will have cycled over 3,750 miles, and in retrospect, there is not a lot of the routing I would change. However, today's route would Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:09:09 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/386 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/386 We slept in Rumford, eat breakfast in Mexico, lunch in Farmington and supper in Skowhegan. It seems that the remaining balance of the tour is quickly slipping Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:20:07 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/385 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/385 Correction! It was Gail and Susie who stayed in the motel in Swanton. Bonnie camped like usual. These last few days were supposed to be easy. I cut them back Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:19:42 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/384 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/384 Yes you read the above correctly. We are in Maine. Although we are still planning reach the water, at this point we can all say that we biked from California Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:16:18 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/383 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/383 It was just another hot, muggy and hilly day in Vermont. Oh, did I say hot. All the locals have been telling us how unusual this weather is for this time of Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:45:46 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/382 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/382 This is it; the final leg of the trip. And in typical fashion a day that was supposed to be easy, turn out to be exhausting. It was hot, in the high nineties. Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:17:11 GMT brebo92101 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/381 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/381 Today we rode 86 miles from Watertown, NY, to Morrisburg, Ontario. Ken deftly led us out of town as we cycled toward our first goal, Ogdensburg (56 miles). Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:40:59 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/380 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/380 I have not posted anything in the last two days, because Tuesday and Wednesday were lay over days for me. I spent both days with family and friends I did bike Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:32:36 GMT brebo92101 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/379 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/379 We travelled 68 miles from Oswego to Watertown, NY. It was a beautiful sunny day right from the start with comfortable temperatures and a hint of a tailwind. Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:17:49 GMT Eric http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/378 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/378 For those that are keeping count, today I completed my third fully loaded century, 103 miles. The mild tailwinds helped, but I think the incentive of making it Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:10:17 GMT brebo92101 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/377 http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/bookendstour/message/377 Susie and Gail did a fine job of getting us out of the "maze" of Greece and Rochester where bridges were our nemesis. After travelling for afew miles on a