Had to spit out a grasshopper!

[beancounterbeth]

HHH was great. Thanks for asking. That was our first time there and we had a blast! Already have rooms booked in WF for next year.

I did my first 100K and my husband did the full 100 miles in 4 Hr 23 minutes.

Oh, and the weather was definately not hotter than hell. It was beautiful!

With the lack of sleep I woke up with bags under my eyes and feeling like I was running on empty but once I get there the adrenalin (sp) kicked in and everything went great.

[salsabike]

I love these stories. Glad you survived the crickets and had a successful ride--and that you can stay closer next year.

Eden, you didn't happen to get any pictures of the butterfly thing, did you?

We once--this has nothing to do with bikes--were driving through Idaho on a rock hunting trip. A buck ran into our windshield and shattered it with his antlers (he then kept right on going--he was okay). We stopped at a motel 50 yards up the highway. The room was full of gnats. I mean FULL. Gazillions. We went to the front desk to ask for another room, and she said, "Oh, yeah...there's been a hatch on the river." Defeated, and a little creeped out (why does that sound like the start of a bad sci fi movie? "There's been a HATCH on the river"), we went back to our gnat filled room and tried to sleep with our mouths shut all night.

[tctrek]

Yikes I hate bugs!

[Tuckervill]

I guess this is not the time to tell about the time, sleeping in the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, when I was awakened by a giant cockroach falling from "somewhere" slap! on to my cheek, right beside my mouth.

Karen

[ClockworkOrange]

I just love hearing all your anecdotes.

Frequently I moan about not being able to buy certain things in the UK that you guys have in the US.

BUT................we only have incey wincey spiders, that's enough for me!

Just remembered, sorry going off Topic slightly, noticed this tiny little spider in the garden

Then the wonders of digital cameras using macro

I should have made out he was the size of a dinner plate!


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[wackyjacky1]

I guess this is not the time to tell about the time, sleeping in the 1905 Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, when I was awakened by a giant cockroach falling from "somewhere" slap! on to my cheek, right beside my mouth.

Karen

You just described my worst nightmare. I freakin' HATE roaches.

[salsabike]

I stayed in a poor little apartment in Kyoto in the summer of '86 for about ten days. It had absolutely HUGE Asian roaches, the kind they have at the Seattle Zoo because they're so impressively enormous--3 to 4 inches long, I guess. I made a deal with myself: As long as I didn't wake up with one on my face, I could take it. I used to hear one of the guys thundering through the apartment in the middle of the night going after them with his tennis racket.

We slept on futons on the floor, so the possibility of a close encounter was pretty real. However, I never did wake up with one on my face, so I managed...I guess if I had, I would have found a way to manage that too. But glad I didn't have to. I guess he was saving himself for Tuckervill.