ttaylor and lauraelmore, glad to see you survived the zombie invasion. I really enjoyed reading your ride reports. You must have been in Arlington the same time as my DH, he told me about that crazy loud woman, although he thought she may have just been mentally ill, not drunk, just spewing awfulness at everyone, yikes.

I was happy to hear there were still zombies on the route, we encountered those last year, but fortunately they weren't in our way. So funny you got a picture with them ttaylor!

I'm really curious as to what the real issue at the border was, as last year they also checked our numbers against their list of riders and it didn't take more than 20-30 minutes tops. Very strange and aggravating.

I'm thinking it's not fair that the weather was perfect AND they rerouted some of the hilly sections out (THE WALL) the year I'm not doing that ride. I do remember what a shock that first big bad hill in Woodinville was though, after that nice easy-breezy section on the Burke, ha ha. Lauraelmore, I'm glad after all you've been through this year and after STP you were able to complete this ride, good on you!! Congrats to both you ladies.