The only phone numbers on the cue sheets for for 911 and the local hospital. I did see a couple marked sag wagons, but the sag support appeared to be pretty meager and there was no way to contact sag suppport unless you could make it to a rest stop. I did pass several people with flat tires and we offered assistance but were turned down. We did help one woman who had dropped her chain and could not figure out why the rear wheel wouldn't turn.

I was disappointed that the promised fruit was not offered at the rest stops (unless it was all gone before we got to each one?) One stop was out of water. OUT OF WATER??? go figure? And what's with all the white bread mushy PB&J? Ewwwww. It seemed that some, if not all, of the rest stops closed too early to help the later riders. I heard several reports of riders finding rest stops totally abandoned when they came through.

My biggest complaint was that you had to do some serious origami to fold the cue sheets to fit standard cue sheet holders. Making a cue sheet isn't rocket science, but maybe they need a real cyclist to format the cue sheets to make them more efficient, and make page turning co-incide better with rest stops. Proofreading the cue sheets against the map to be sure all the directions and street names are correct would be very useful.

Cue sheets need to have a contact phone number, a note as to when rest stops would close, and be formatted to fit cue sheet holders, or to be more easily managable if just clipping it to a cable. There were lots of lost cue sheets on the side of the road.

Problems notwithstanding, it was a beautiful sunny (but windy) ride in an area with very little traffic. We saw bald eagles, Sika deer, a fox and a few dead snakes. And lots of wolly bear catapillars. Did not get a chance to visit the butterfly garden at the nature center but I've seen it on other visits at various times of the year when it was teeming with butterflies.

And then there was the wind..... plentiful wind, and sometimes it seemed to come from all directions. Saturday we had gusts in the 30-35mph range, and the Sunday gusts were in the 20-25mph range. Never a dull momemt.