Saturday, May 30th Rides

[Catrin]

I forgot to mention that on my ride through Burleson and the surrounding area I saw a funny thing. Caterpillars crossing the road. The big, fat, furry caterpillers. I thought they looked like something out of disney crossing the road in a business like fashion. At a rest stop I mentioned them to my husband ....that I liked seeing such big furry caterpillers. I had never seen such large fat ones before. I reckoned they were cute and might even be a fun pet. He looked at me and said, "Yeah, those are asps, not caterpillers. They send you to the hospital."
Fabulous. So much for Disney.

I am curious about this - it doesn't sound like you are talking about snakes - and those are the only Asps I've heard of. I looked around the internet to see if I could find mention of these but wasn't successful - or I shouldn't have mixed beer and getting over-heated I assume you are in Burleson, Texas? Just trying to figure out what these creatures are.

Added: after posting this question of course I found the information here. It always seems to work that way

[shootingstar]

42 kms. Bit of a wind, but fine. Not sure why my legs were getting tired. Especially when 1 wk. ago I did 99 kms. and I was buzzin' to go.

[jdubble]

I am curious about this - it doesn't sound like you are talking about snakes - and those are the only Asps I've heard of. I looked around the internet to see if I could find mention of these but wasn't successful - or I shouldn't have mixed beer and getting over-heated I assume you are in Burleson, Texas? Just trying to figure out what these creatures are.

Added: after posting this question of course I found the information here. It always seems to work that way

Here's another page on 'em - http://www.ayavaya.com/bug-photos/asp-caterpillar - I think I'm glad we don't have those here!

[annielynn]

I had a great ride. We had a special club ride this morning where we raised some money for a little boy (2 years old) that was struck by a car and is not paralized from the chest down. We had a great turn out for the ride and we were able to raise over $1700 and two plane tickets. It was heart warming event! My hubby and I took out a smaller group of B riders. There were about 8 of us. It was early on when I realized that I was one of the more experienced riders of the group. Half way through our ride I had worked my way to the front of the pace line. For the first time ever I was able to pull the line of riders for 3 miles at 20mph. You could not have wiped that smile off of my face. I was very excited for my newest accomplishment.