Well, we were going to do a last-minute thing but there were these wall clouds and lightning.. tehre were still five of us out there but we figured it really would defeat the purpose of the ride to get ourselves killed.
One of the guys and I chatted about trying to *really* organize one next year. It's not a big town even when all the students are here - and they're not right now, it's not even summer session - but from what so many people have said, this is something that brings people out of the woodwork. IT also made me think - when I recalled how often the drivers don't get consequences for what they do - that maybe at some level people think that riders "ask for it," just as it used to be acceptable to think that women who walked down the wrong street / wore the wrong clothes "asked for it." I blogged about it (see signature)...