Westlake village. Valley of McMansions. I haven't update the blog since the ride.

roadies!!

karen

rest stop 1. taking it real slow, since closing cerimonies are not till 4 pm

Ginger and the Major of Santa Barbra.

Ginger with another great costume

welcome to paradise pit

we get some beautiful scenery while we wait for the highway to open.

breakfast line. us early birds avoided that line. This is like a small mobile city. It's amazing how well this is coordinated. Tonight will be the last dinner in camp. Hard to believe it's almost over.

ducks preening.

Back at Camp

Jermy dresses up for the ride. "See Dad I told you I wouldn't be the only 1 wearing lipstick" Giving strawberries to riders.

lunch. I'm taking it real slow today

top of the ribbon

Red dress day!

In at 1400 hours. In the top 60. Thats not what I was going for. I'm so worried about being saged that I overcompensated

Morro Rock in the distance.

halfway to Los Angeles. Wooo Hooo

roadie fashion show

frontier town campsite for day 3. Today was so much better than yesterday. managed to be 1 of the 1st riders in. Services were not even set up yet when I got here that early. I helped the roadies unload the truck. It's amazing how many hard working dedicated people are here. It's humbling. Highlight of the day was an incredible massage! No more pain! thank you!

back at camp yeah!

dreamgirls rest stop

ho ho ho tell bad santa what u want

welcome to fairy land rest stop 2

the top of quadbuster DAMN

the hardcore getting ready for day 3

ACL6 #7

Gabcast! ACL6 #7

finally in camp...yeah

the eye chart on the porta potties is very creative

rest stop 4 DMV

otter pop stop

rest stop 3 at a farm

rest stop2 sesame street

artichoke stp Watsonville. got a headache I can't seem to shake off

rest stop 1 day2 got a late start. decided to ride in recovery mode even though i don't feel that bad.

riders coming in day 1 done

tent city in sunny Santa Cruz. We saw drastic weather changes what seemed like every 15 minutes. We also rode by some incredible scenery. Got in at 2:30

relief! 1st pee and the top of that b*tch of a hill.

riders taking off from the Cow Palace
up Geneva Street

Day 1 June 3rd Redden taking off at the Cow Palace
in San Francisco

sure glad that Karens here. She stood in the registration line while I watched the safety video.

more lines

Loooooooooong line for registration.

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Tapering now. No more long rides but I'm taking the more difficult routes home from work. Thinking about offering my donors text and picture messages that I will post here too.

Great Quotes

If Falwell were given an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
Video from http://www.crooksandliars.com click here

HITCHENS: The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called Reverend.

Who would, even at your network, have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were God's punishment if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification?

People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup.

Great stuff just as the revisionists attempt to put this disgusting excuse for a human on a pedestal as they did Reagan and Nixon. Those of us that have been around a while know better.

True to it's namesake the Ronald Reagan Medical Center will not match funds for employees that do the AIDS/Lifecycle ride. I've received good support from Co-workers but silence from the institute that I work for. Seems like UCLA and medicine in particular would be supportive. I remember Reagan as Governor. During his tenure he did great damage to the mental health system. It was as if a switch was pulled and the streets were filled with homeless overnight. The developmentally disabled were turned over to regional centers and the death rate quadrupled. His legacy on AIDS as President was disgraceful. Links below

Ronald Reagan, Apologist for Apartheid, Champion of the Rich and Big Business, Ignorer of AIDS, and Funder of Death Squads, Dead at 93

Reagan's AIDS Legacy
Silence equals death

Ronald Reagan and AIDS

The Truth About Reagan And AIDS

Reagan's AIDSGATE

Brentwood VA. 120.1 miles on the odo

Temescal canyon. mile111

breathtaking view