KC - I guess it is all perspective..I wish I had hills like that round here. I was looking at real estate prices when I got home...tres expensive!

Jiffer- I remember your posting about your century. Funny- I looked at weather charts from the area while I was there- the wind does shift- so it was not likely in your (or my) imagination. That hotel was the main inn for participants to stay at. It is lovely. We ate outside a few times in the little gardens in the back and also in the front. I had signed up later- the rooms there were booked up. I stayed up the street at a cheaper place- for the amount of time I actually spent in it- worked for me.

Bike Chick- I am seriously considering going back next year. I have a few hills that I have a grudge with.