It is that readily agreed thing that should have me just a bit worried, because they do it with too much regularity and too little thought. And afterwards they kind of look at me with those eyes that say, Ok what is the story , you came up with the plan when are we doing this .
My plans are ususually such that I feel comfortable that none of us will get killed doing it. We have hiked and we have biked and for the most part they are fun events . We have biked the craziness that is the NY Five Borough Bike Tour five years in a row. Us and 30,000 bike nuts riding the streets of New York on the first Sunday in May. It winds up being about a 50 mile ride after all is said and done and the miles in and out added to the 42 official miles make up that total.
We get in shape for it and condition from March to May., we convince ourselves that father time is held at bay, even though we know much different.
This year I said , let's go to the C&O Canal Towpath outside Washington DC. They jumped on the wagon. So we left NJ on Wednesday, got picked up by a commercial shuttle service in DC and were driven to Hancock Md. We slept in an old lumber shed, that they refer to as the "bunkhouse" and bright and early and chilly Thursday AM we set out. We rode 45 miles of the hardscrabble trail that is the towpath and flopped into tents and sleeping bags at a campsite along the way. We repeated the same the next day and the day following. Arriving at our cars on Saturday. 30 degree morning wake up and 65 degree days met our arrival, we were in heaven.
