It is funny to me that I did not blog once during 2017. So I am hoping to fix that with this post.
The year 2017 is almost over and overall it was a good year, at least from my perspective on Dec 17. Positives are we traveled a lot including a big trip to New Zealand and Fiji. Also went to Germany (Celle) for work for the first time since before 2000. Prerna and I took advantage of the Southwest Companion perk taking small trips to Miami, Portland, Memphis, and Chicago. We visited Austin a few times to take and drop off Saagar.
Saagar and I did the MS-150 for the first time the weekend of Saturday April 29 to April 30. It was a lot of fun [photo album here]. The weather was overall very nice. Saagar took the Megabus in from Austin and we picked him up off of 1960 near Ramesh dada's house. We spent the night with Ramesh dada / Ranjan baa. We left from Waller Stadium on morning of Saturday April 29th. Prerna dropped us off and we rode the 76 miles to LaGrange. Just as we left Saagar had a flat so we back tracked about 500 yards and found a bike shop pop up tent. We bought a new tire and tube had it installed and took off again. The ride from Waller was the shortest route. Being that this was our first ride we chose this route because starting from Waller was the shortest route. According to Google Maps it is about 74.4 miles. We got to LaGrange about 3:40 on Saturday. LaGrange for the MS-150 is a party. We got a couple of beers from the Karbach tent and made it over to the Baker Hughes tent. We setup our sleeping bags and stuff and then headed over to take a shower at LaGrange school. We slept well but a bad thunderstorm came through that night.
In the morning we had a light breakfast and waited in the cold to kick off the second day. It was about 50 degrees at the start and since all of the riders were waiting we were getting cold. The ride started about 8:00 and we left about 8:20ish. The ride was a little shorter Day 2 about 67 miles. The route took us along Hwy 71 to Bastrop and then on FM 969 to Weberville and in to Austin. We arrived in Austin around 3:30 PM. It was not that bad a ride. We could have done the longer route. I need to get a bit faster.
The year 2017 is almost over and overall it was a good year, at least from my perspective on Dec 17. Positives are we traveled a lot including a big trip to New Zealand and Fiji. Also went to Germany (Celle) for work for the first time since before 2000. Prerna and I took advantage of the Southwest Companion perk taking small trips to Miami, Portland, Memphis, and Chicago. We visited Austin a few times to take and drop off Saagar.
Saagar and I did the MS-150 for the first time the weekend of Saturday April 29 to April 30. It was a lot of fun [photo album here]. The weather was overall very nice. Saagar took the Megabus in from Austin and we picked him up off of 1960 near Ramesh dada's house. We spent the night with Ramesh dada / Ranjan baa. We left from Waller Stadium on morning of Saturday April 29th. Prerna dropped us off and we rode the 76 miles to LaGrange. Just as we left Saagar had a flat so we back tracked about 500 yards and found a bike shop pop up tent. We bought a new tire and tube had it installed and took off again. The ride from Waller was the shortest route. Being that this was our first ride we chose this route because starting from Waller was the shortest route. According to Google Maps it is about 74.4 miles. We got to LaGrange about 3:40 on Saturday. LaGrange for the MS-150 is a party. We got a couple of beers from the Karbach tent and made it over to the Baker Hughes tent. We setup our sleeping bags and stuff and then headed over to take a shower at LaGrange school. We slept well but a bad thunderstorm came through that night.
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