The 2013 Tour de Dance has begun! Already, we are delighted by the participation. One of our friends used a bicycle in thier transportation to the Rehoboth dance and one of our hosts for the evening also made it to the dance. We will be joined all week by the lovely Lisa Herrera who will convey her experience with her own posts. The Rehoboth dance was extra welcoming to us and helped us spread the word with an announcement about our event and a posting on thier website. We also had great fun dancing to a very catchy arrangement of recorded music and the always reliable calling of Lisa Greenleaf at Rehoboth’s fundraising dance. Thank you Rehoboth!

We can always count on bike trips invite the unexpected and memorable, but just to make sure Isaac commemorated this year’s trip with the purchase of a new house closing just his before our start. Congratulations Isaac! Of course, the bike trip came through with it’s own memorable event when we encountered a gentleman passed out on the East Bay bike path at 1:30 on the morning just outside of Bristol. You may wonder what happens on bike paths at such an hour and I can report that the answer is generally “nothing.” Most of the miles we traveled along the path last night we saw only rabbits, but right near Bristol was this one man unconscious on the side of the trail with his bike toppled over in the middle of the trail. I’ve had days where I felt like falling off my bike and immediately napping, but he had actually done it!