If you’ve been supporting me for a while, you may recall my sad stories about the challenging storms that have plagued the Bike MS ever since 2018. So we are overdue for what most of us expect in September: beautiful blue skies with lows in the high 50s and highs in the low 80s. This…
I eyed the Volt since it was a concept car in ’08 before finally leasing my “dream car” in December 2012. An influential builder donated funds to his alma mater to build a solar parking canopy with an EV charging station on campus, and our company built the array and installed the station. At the…
This year seemed to be an opportunity to return to some semblance of normal, with Covid feeling like it is largely in our rear-view mirrors. While I didn’t do nearly as much riding this summer, I felt relatively good and ready to ride. My long-time cycling partner Harold was in much better shape, having ridden…
The past few years has certainly been full of letdowns for the Bike MS event planners. Tropical storm Gordon caused the cancellation of the 2018 ride, and the second day of the 2019 event was also cancelled due to storms. 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic. So this year, with the Delta variant surging,…
In my 20th year of riding for MS, we continue to define new “firsts.” In 2018, the entire event was cancelled due to a projected deluge from Tropical Storm Gordon. Last year, after a spectacularly beautiful day on Saturday, we were again hit with another storm that forced the staff to cancel Day 2. This…
Saturday September 7 was a picture-perfect day for a bike ride. Probably the best day weather-wise since my first ride in 2001. We’ve had nice days, but this was just beautiful – mildly warm with a mildly cool breeze to keep things comfortable. But Sunday showed another side of September that we’ve all seen before….
Over the years, we’ve experienced all kinds of weather, from hot and dry to cold and wet, and everything in between. But the ride went on in spite of whatever Mother Nature had to throw at us, even tents rolling across the field like tumbleweeds! But this year the ominous forecast of what the Gordon…
It’s been two weeks since the ride, and a very busy time since then. A 25th wedding anniversary cannot be celebrated in a single day, you know, and though the U2 concert in St. Louis was cancelled, the Cardinals played on, as did Billy Joel. Suffice it to say, there was hardly an evening on…
2 July 2017 Dear, Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry, I started to write this three months ago, and was distracted away from it to attend to something else. Procrastination took over from there. Anyway, I was inspired to write this letter in spite of the fact that I have no idea how to get it…
There was a protest in downtown St Louis today that I chose not to go to. I respect and appreciate the people who went out to protest the president-elect that so many feel is unfit to be president. However, the people have spoken. Short of any election rigging, it appears that Donald Trump won the…
