This is gonna be short and sweet, sort of... A five-hour day of good riding and great weather again. Very little traffic for a Sunday. With heavy traffic, I always worry about the guys when folks behind us get impatient and pissed, and pass right into oncoming traffic. Some guy in a white van did that yesterday, and the oncoming car with two young guys decided to play chicken and swerved toward the van, instead of away - they barely missed each other, and right beside our guys. Both drivers were nuts, as far as I am concerned. In the grand scheme of things, what does 10 minutes mean in someone’s life that they can’t chill out and go slow once a year when we ride here?

Talk about doing dumb things - today as we rode down a quiet country road, some guy in a yellow kit, standing beside the road, saw us and rode his bike at an angle right into the pack. Guys were swerving right and left to miss him, and a couple of guys nearly fell. Talk about a fred! No black sox, but a totally dumb move. Johan honked and told him to get outta there, so he followed along for a very short while. I guess he thought he would ride with the team, and didn’t have a clue...

I didn’t take many pics again today - I took a couple of Johan pacing some if the guys back after they stopped to water the flowers. I was driving with one hand and snapping the pics, trying to look with one eye ahead at the guys and look thru the viewfinder with the other eye. That wasn’t too smart, either, but we were going slowly and I was quite a ways back. I wouldn’t recommend that technique...