Quote Originally Posted by Susan126 View Post
Well, I just found out over the weekend that my niece is having a wedding reception on Saturday, July 14th. She was married this past fall but is having two wedding receptions for family. One reception will be on June 16th in NYC (where she currently works and lives with her new husband) and the second reception will be in her husband's home town of Spokane on Saturday, July 14th. Of course we are going. She is my husband's brother's daughter. Joe's family all live in Montana so it will be like a huge family thing too. Now that I cannot do the STP I am looking for other events to do. Here are my candidates:

The Apple Bike Ride in Wenatchee

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The Chelan Century Challenge near Lake Chelan

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The Rapsody Bike Ride and there are a few others.

Has anyone done any of these rides? Did you enjoy them? Good points/Bad?

Well, I guess I paid for an STP that I will not be doing. Sigh. I think it's a sign that a 10,000 person bike ride is not in the stars for me.

The Wenatchee Apple Century is one of the nicest rides I have ever done. The weather was JUST RIGHT last year. Imagine 72 miles on a road that
3 cars pass you on. Yes, there was the 12 miles on the highway getting there, and then of course, coming home you had to get on that same busy dusty highway to get back to wenatchee, but once we got onto the forest service road, it was like heaven. All you could hear were birds and all you could smell were the trees.
Last years's route was a slight incline all the way to the end of a road,
then a turn around and ride all the way back down gentle hills, coasting.
ah, glorious...