Posted by anomalily Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:25:54 GMT
We made it.
Through wearing shorts with an inseam of 6cms or less.
Through insanely long, hectic ID check lines.
Through 3 costume changes.
Through 52 volunteers.
Through 12 kegs of beer.
Through 200+ rides.
Through 13 hours of walking in moonboots.
Through 17 days.
Through the most spectacular, blissful, and tiring holiday in the world.
Pedalpalooza, I love you.
But I'm ready for some time apart.
Posted by anomalily Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:25:06 GMT
About four minutes after it happened, I found out about Michael Jackson's death via twitter. A ride in celebration of his life and music was planned with lightning speed through the internet and the rest of my evening was spent dancing & listening to Jackson. First: Nickey's "tea dance" bike ride. Then, a highly-publicized (for only a 2 hour lead time) bike dance party for MJ. Including a beautiful bike eulogy from Deacon Amos of the Bike Temple. After a few miles of dancing, had to leave to lead the Parks to Parks ride. Upon arriving, I proposed two options to the group: 1) go on my pre-planned route of little unknown parks or 2) take a shortened route and join up the MJ memorial ride/dance party. We selected a hybrid option that involved dancing to a trailer full of MJ tunes and going on the originally scheduled ride.
The ride lasted 6.5 hours and we hit 8 parks. The ride was pretty huge at peak (>40) and was never smaller than 12 (even when I left for bed at 2:30AM). We had mass tree-climbing, dancing, fountain-playing, donuts, a "sculpture tour" in holladay park, a silent group cuddle-puddle star-gazing. All in all, my favorite ride I led. Once again, we ended at the bluffs, overlooking industrial N Portland.
Posted by anomalily Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:32:17 GMT
...Life is good in the pedalpalooza world.
