I've never been tent camping, or at least not by myself and it has been 25 years since I've been camping at all! There is a charity ride this weekend in southern Indiana and I've decided to go.

I just found out they have free camping at the ride - apparently the entire town turns out to support this fundraiser for their food bank. So am borrowing a tent and sleeping bag from friends and drive up the evening before This has to be nuts - I've never done this on my own in my almost 51 years - but it sounds like fun!

They serve a nice breakfast and lunch the day of the event, so all I have to do is to stop for dinner on the way down. This will be an adventure - and a great way of de-stressing from the 30 hours of overtime (and counting) that I've worked since last Thursday!

Hopefully I won't be too stiff to ride Saturday morning