she is my hero as well. Reminds me of a lot of the riding I did while living in the Netherlands, only you would have to add two saddlebags and a child in a bike seat ( no nifty trailers at that point) and the usual amount of Dutch seasonal liquid sunshine. 
On the last cross country ( Southern Tier) ride I did, our oldest rider was 72 years old and she probably could have outridden us all distance wise. My favorite photo of her is after one of the longer, hotter, dustier days in Arizona when she put on her swimsuit,clogs, helmet and gloves and rode around in the rain instead of swimming, and to get the dust and grit off her bike. Miss Bee was a pip.
Last edited by marni; 10-28-2010 at 07:38 PM.
Reason: spelling
marni
Katy, Texas
Trek Madone 6.5- "Red"
Trek Pilot 5.2- " Bebe"
"easily outrun by a chihuahua."