I would love to visit Central Florida:D:D:DQuote:
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I would love to visit Central Florida:D:D:DQuote:
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Maidei is en route to Atlanta. Skinimini will be hosting her there to launch her US tour. Have fun!
How exciting! Can't wait to take her to the Mississippi River:D
To all of you Southern TE'ers, let me know if you are interested in hosting Maidei and we can work together to figure out where she goes when she leaves the great state of Georgia.
For those in the Atlanta and North Georgia environs, if she arrives before the 19th, I plan for Maidei ride along on the Jackson County Brevet. On the 20th, I'm tentatively planning a ride around town to show her our fabulous city. One of my guy friends does this really cool ride called "Tour de Town". You hit all of the hotspots in "Hotlanta" before ending up in Stone Mtn--I believe it's a 50ish mile ride. Then she'll head on to be in the company of others.
I'm so excited Maidei will be here shortly! :D
I'm at the bottom of the Mississippi, or pretty dang close to the bottom.Quote:
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This'll be fun. Add New Orleans to the list.Quote:
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Of course the scheduling fun is that I'm waiting to hear if I got the job in Seattle. I might know something the end of next week.
Let's not forget the New England contingent. I know we had a discussion about a possible route much earlier in the year. She could go up the coast, visit the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and then go on to either Canada, or the midwest.
I vote for Midwest....I would love to have her ride with me in my first century this Fall :)
She'll get to the whole USA and a lot of southern Canada eventually before heading off to Europe, although at this rate it could be several years.
I still think we should be planning this along the lines of bicycling handoffs, not along the lines of who wants her most and can wait by their mailbox for air freight.
Possible directions from Atlanta are Tennessee, South Carolina, or north Florida. What direction is she going to head first?
I agree in principle with you Oakleaf--I just don't know how the logistics will exactly work. I know in the south, we only have clusters of people and not much in between. I can imagine that would be the case in the mid-west as well. I think NE and Pac NW will have less difficulty hand-to-hand. I'd love to do a handoff, and I could potentially make it work in several different directions. I could do North FL (panhandle area), parts of AL, SC, parts of TN.
Just a thought, but perhaps, from Atlanta, Maidei could head down to FL and then from there up to the Carolinas and Virginia and then continue to the NE. NE TE'ers could decide where to go from there?
This is so difficult, because all of us want to be a part of Maidei's adventure and I hope that we can show her the US in as quick a time as possible. I know I intend to have her just a short period of time before I hand off to friends.
Plot people on a map and choose the most logical routing from there?
So who has Maidei /will get her next?
I'm willing to be a Maidei ride participant --but won't be able to help until after mid-July.
Good idea. Not that I've been able to make the TE map work for me. We could create another one and give it another try...Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
I think this is a great idea, as Oakleaf said this would allow a logical progression for her - and perhaps this could allow for at least a few bicycle hand-overs :)Quote:
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I, for one, am looking forward to showing her my favorite local riding spots :D
I agree with Oak. I'm sure we could figure out a zigzag up and down the US so everyone gets a chance. It would be nice to do a bicycle handoff or at least do it in person. Catrin, you and I are just a few hours apart by automobile and there are several folks here in between. I'm sure we can work it out.
We should try to plan it with the weather in mind; i.e., if she comes to the NE in January, the chance of a bike hand-off will be pretty small.
I agree, that in some areas the people are not close together and they will need to resort to mail. On the other hand, there are tons of TE people within 20 miles of me.
If you need a central Virginia handoff, let me know. There are lots of TE people in Northern Virginia (DC area), so I could act as a link to them
We're just floundering here. Everyone's posting "me! me!" and no one has a plan. Pardon me for getting frustrated. :o
We can't really plan for weather/climate because we don't know exactly how long it's going to take.
So: how about this suggestion.
As soon as Maidei gets to someone, that person posts their general location and solicits a handoff.
Anyone within roughly 100 miles of the person who has her, respond.
Do not respond to the first solicitation if you are not within 100 miles of the person who has her.
If no one responds within a week of Maidei's arrival, the person who has her posts a second solicitation. Anyone who considers themselves "kind of nearby" respond to that one. Do not respond to the second solicitation if you don't consider yourself nearby.
If no one responds to the second post within a week (making two weeks that Maidei has been with the person), then it's open and she should be shipped to one of the areas that has a large concentration of TE'rs (PNW, DC, New England) if she hasn't been there already, or a random site if those have already been done. Those handoffs can be planned with weather and climate in mind.
For safety reasons, obviously, no one posts their exact location or contact details; handoffs are arranged via PM.
Does that work for everyone? Modifications or alternate suggestions?
Works for me...................
It sounds like a good approach, we have to come up with some organized way to further her travels! I also like the map idea if we can get it to work properly. Then again, I make maps for a living, among other things, so I think maps are always called for :p
Depending on which century you do, I may be there as well! Keep your eye out for her coming this way!!!Quote:
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I'll be doing the Apple Cider Century in Three Oaks.
After some delivery snafus with the post office, Maidei, our tiny world traveler, has arrived safe and sound in Atlanta! :D :D :D She is beautiful and I know she has so many stories to tell!!!
I like Oak's idea. So here's the plan while she's in Atlanta. Tomorrow, friends and I are going to do a "Tour de Town", visiting all the hotspots of Atlanta a velo. Anyone in Atlanta (or anyone close by for that matter) is welcome to join us. PM me for specifics.
Anytime in the next few weeks, I can do a handoff. So anyone within 100 miles of Atlanta, give me a holler by PM.
Alternatively, I could post her to the next person on Monday, perhaps down to FL and then she can start a zig-zag up the east coast and so on.
I'll be sure to post pics of her Atlanta adventures!
Anyone within one hundred miles of Atlanta, contact me by PM so we can arrange a handoff. My schedule is flexible over the next couple of weeks--but I'd rather do sooner than later!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40XPy14ay_g
Click on the link to watch a short video of Maidei's tour around Atlanta. My biking buddy, Mike, was so kind to record our trip. It was a grand ride, a little hot at the end. Nothing too exciting happened. At the beginning, a rather large deer bolted in front of us, :cool: she was almost "kidnapped" in Centennial Olympic Park, :eek: and she took a little spill on Peachtree St. :o
On Saturday, she enjoyed lunch at the 5 Seasons BrewPub and Monday, she did a short tour around Sandy Springs (my community), posing for pictures on many of the Sandy Springs Turtles.
I'll post stills a little later! What a fabulous time we had!
Great video, thanks for sharing! :D
This was fun, thanks for putting this together!
I love your jersey :)
It is very cool to see Maidei making her way around the world. I have never been to Atlanta so it was great to see a snippet of your city. You have some wonderful buildings.:)
I'll be handing off to Skibum this evening. I believe she has plans to visit Virginia in the next few days and participate in the Ride Across Virginia with Maidei. We had planned a bike-to-bike handoff on the Silver Lake Route in the Brookhaven-Buckhead area of town, but I have developed a significant upper respiratory infection and fever, so no biking for me today.
I can't wait to hear about Maidei's continued travels! :D
I'll be meeting up with skibum at Bike Virginia, and hopefully doing a handoff to some DC-area folks who will also be on the ride.
Here are just a few pictures of my time in Atlanta. What fun I had! After, the tour of the city of Atlanta, I took the opportunity to pose with some of the Town Turtles of the city of Sandy Springs (Betsy's community).
Handoff to Skibum, June 23, 2010. Can't wait to ride "Bike Virginia" and start my journey to the Mid-Atlantic and NE!
I just saw the video- how fun. What a great video for Maidei's debut into the US. I was smiling the entire time. And thank you Mike, too.
Always great to see where Maidei visits. Glad you recovered too skinmini!
Way cool skinimini! Atlanta looks like an interesting place.
I do have one odd question..I expected your accent to be stronger being from the Southern US..Are you a long time Atlantan or a recent addition? :o
I look forward to listening to more accents :o
I really had fun with Maidei and I was so lucky that my bike buddy Mike loves to take videos. I only wish I had been able to do a bike handoff to skibum--I looked OK in the pic, but I have never been as sick as I was this past Wed. DH actually had to drive me to handoff.Quote:
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As for Southern accent--I think I have a very strong accent. Raised in Alabama, college in Virginia (maybe those yankees from across the Mason-Dixon line had a little effect on me), and Atlanta for the past 24 years. Southern through and through!
I just watched the video and looked at the pics. I loved it. What a great idea and I'm so glad you are feeling better.
There was an emergency and Madei had to come home early from Bike Virginia. Don't Worry! Everyone's okay!
Tomorrow she's scheduled to go on a tour around Richmond, Virginia, and then she will pack her bags to go....where?
She was hoping to happen upon some other TEers at Bike Virginia, but that didn't happen (they are still there, Madei and tulip are not). So....if there is anyone within 50 miles of Richmond, let me know. Otherwise, I'll send her by mail to one of the DC-area TE crowd.
Anyone? Anyone?
Any DC-area folks heading to the Northern Neck of Virginia for 4th of July by any chance? Opportunity for a handoff, and a small town parade, great bike rides, fireworks over the water...
What's the word? Anyone know where Maidei is?
Uh, yeah. Madei is still in Richmond awaiting her next assignment. She's trying to keep cool and will post her photos from the Chesapeake Bay and Richmond later today.
She's a traveling gal at heart and would like to hit the road soon. But so far no one has responded to her request for accommodations in parts unknown.