So I was responsible for getting the riders from Providence to Wellsboro with cue sheets every day. The process was slow and was definitely my biggest stress for the first part of the trip. I enjoyed the challenge of routing 32 riders each day and I enjoyed the patience of the riders who didn't skip a beat when I told them the day's ride was 100 miles, when everyone was expecting 80.
I also learned that roads and road signs in New England are meaningless. Routes! Everything is routes and routes do not follow paths. Routes follow random roads that are not associated with road signs. Cue sheets could have 70 lines of right on such and such street for 200 ft, continue on the next street while kind of staying right for another 300 ft, and follow this road with three road names for the next 40 miles where it will change names approximately 14 times. The other option is to say stay on Rte-44/US-55/CR-17/Old-17 as it winds through all the towns between Poughkeepsie and Roscoe over 70 miles and hope that no one misses a sign and that the mileage comes close to correct (which it rarely did).
I am glad to pass the torch to Natalie this week and pick it up in the West where the routes consist of only one road between towns.
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Danny, I see you'll be arriving in Youngstown, OH on the 27th. If you take Rt. 224 to get there, you may drive right past where Micheal's dad & sister live (in Edinburg/Hillsville, PA). I'll ask them to be on the lookout for a bunch of riders. That area should at least be pretty flat for a change.
ReplyDeleteDanny, I forgot to sign the earlier post. It's from your aunt Annie. Hope you're doing well.
ReplyDeleteI always knew you would be famous! Look for a package arriving in Dayton OH....hope it makes in time for the drop off.'Love, MOM
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