(OT) No riding for me -- I'll be in NYC!

"Mike Latondresse" wrote in message
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Zoot Katz wrote in
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On 18 Feb 2006 12:14:50 -0800, "Fritz M"
wrote:

rdclark wrote:

Me, I'm leaving for Patagonia Monday. Not bringing my bike
either. g

I'll be in upstate NY this week, near Albany. I won't have a bike
either.

I'm staying here to enjoy the great cycling weather and spring
blush.

Looks like another week of clear sub-freezing nights will retard
the bloom until Claire gets back in time for it to warm up and
start raining again.

I spotted my first cherry blossoms of the year on Feb. 11th but
they were in a fairly sheltered and well lighted location. There's
just the faintest hint of pink in the air over the tree lined
streets.

Enjoy your travels.

About a third of the blossoms on my Camelia are out.

Who are these people who look forward to spring in the middle of February
where it is 20 degrees below zero wind chill right outside my front door. If
there is any justice in the world they ought to be sentenced to live for a
year in Minnesota in order to learn what the real world is like.

Has it ever occurred to anyone but me that this planet is just barely
inhabitable by us humans. I should have been a polar bear. But hey, how
about everyone going to the fabled land known as Canada. I understand it is
even colder there than here in Minnesota. However, Eastern Siberia is the
absolute pits for cold, at least where people live.The only places colder
are the Greenland ice cap and the entire continent of Antarctica, but no one
lives in those wonderful places where I don't think the camellias ever
bloom.

I was once in a conversation with someone on Usenet who lived in Barrow,
Alaska and he thought it was a paradise there. He was crazy as a Minnesota
loon of course, but he drove me mad with his effusions about that god
forsaken place. Anyone for Fairbanks, Alaska?

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Mike Latondresse wrote:
About a third of the blossoms on my Camelia are out.

I have several containers of spring bulbs that I'm forcing. (west
Michigan, 9 degrees today)

--Karen D.
thinking about NYC visits

Mike Kruger wrote:

If you are going to real Patagonia, and not here
http://www.patagonia.com/za/PDC/Pgon...jsp?src=botnav
we'd probably be interested in a short post about your trip, biking or not
biking.
Hope it's a good trip.

Fingers crossed; I'm going to shoot video of a dinosaur dig we're
collaborating on, but I'll only have five days on the ground, so the
weather will be a critical player.

When there's a URL, I'll post it.

RichC

Fritz M wrote:
rdclark wrote:

Me, I'm leaving for Patagonia Monday. Not bringing my bike either. g

I'll be in upstate NY this week, near Albany. I won't have a bike
either.

I'm thinking once I finish moving tomorrow to hop on my bike and ride
down into the deep tropics out of the cool front we've been having down
to someplace where I can go swimming. The question is do I go for the
hot springs or the ocean?

-M

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:58:54 +0000, Claire Petersky wrote:

My bike's staying home. I'll be walking instead. I'm not sure what weather
I'm supposed to dress for -- is it going to be 15 or 50 F?

Yes. 15 today, 50 later in the week.

--

David L. Johnson

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Edward Dolan wrote:

"Mike Latondresse" wrote in message
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Zoot Katz wrote in
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On 18 Feb 2006 12:14:50 -0800, "Fritz M"
wrote:


rdclark wrote:


Me, I'm leaving for Patagonia Monday. Not bringing my bike
either. g

I'll be in upstate NY this week, near Albany. I won't have a bike
either.


I'm staying here to enjoy the great cycling weather and spring
blush.

Looks like another week of clear sub-freezing nights will retard
the bloom until Claire gets back in time for it to warm up and
start raining again.

I spotted my first cherry blossoms of the year on Feb. 11th but
they were in a fairly sheltered and well lighted location. There's
just the faintest hint of pink in the air over the tree lined
streets.

Enjoy your travels.

About a third of the blossoms on my Camelia are out.


Who are these people who look forward to spring in the middle of February
where it is 20 degrees below zero wind chill right outside my front door. If
there is any justice in the world they ought to be sentenced to live for a
year in Minnesota in order to learn what the real world is like.

Has it ever occurred to anyone but me that this planet is just barely
inhabitable by us humans. I should have been a polar bear. But hey, how
about everyone going to the fabled land known as Canada. I understand it is
even colder there than here in Minnesota. However, Eastern Siberia is the
absolute pits for cold, at least where people live.The only places colder
are the Greenland ice cap and the entire continent of Antarctica, but no one
lives in those wonderful places where I don't think the camellias ever
bloom.

I was once in a conversation with someone on Usenet who lived in Barrow,
Alaska and he thought it was a paradise there. He was crazy as a Minnesota
loon of course, but he drove me mad with his effusions about that god
forsaken place. Anyone for Fairbanks, Alaska?

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

I used to go to school and work in Manhattan and used a regular bike
regularly. Would commute from Columbia University to Washington Heights.
Also used to ride to my folks home on Long Island, 40 miles away.

Claire Petersky wrote:

My bike's staying home. I'll be walking instead. I'm not sure what weather
I'm supposed to dress for -- is it going to be 15 or 50 F?

When I visit Seattle, which I'm looking forward to doing in about a month
(hope the cherry blossoms are still in bloom), the hotel where I stay has
loaner bikes for its guests. I wonder if there's a hotel in NYC that would
do the same for you, Claire. I seldom visit NYC and haven't had a chance to
cycle there, but it seems like a good bike town in a lot of ways.

--
Paul Turner

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:30:38 -0600, "Paul Turner"
wrote:

When I visit Seattle, which I'm looking forward to doing in about a month
(hope the cherry blossoms are still in bloom),

Seattle's Cherry Blossom and Japanese Festival is April 22-23, 2006.
It celebrates 1000 flowering cherry trees (A gift from the Japanese
Government) being planted around Lake Washington in 1976.

I was writing of Vancouver, B.C. which has a similar climate and
17,000 flowering cherry trees, of the 130,000 street trees, maintained
by the city since 1917.
--
zk

Claire Petersky wrote:
My bike's staying home. I'll be walking instead. I'm not sure what weather
I'm supposed to dress for -- is it going to be 15 or 50 F?

See you all later --

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
Sponsor me for the Big Climb! See: www.active.com/donate/cpetersky06
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

Too bad you don't have a folder. If you would want to pick up a cheap
used bicycle during your visit, http://www.bikecult.com/works/ should
have something to get you around for a few days.
http://www.transalt.org/ is another resource for getting around by
bicycle.

"Beach Runner" wrote in message
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Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
Who are these people who look forward to spring in the middle of February
where it is 20 degrees below zero wind chill right outside my front door.
If there is any justice in the world they ought to be sentenced to live
for a year in Minnesota in order to learn what the real world is like.

Has it ever occurred to anyone but me that this planet is just barely
inhabitable by us humans. I should have been a polar bear. But hey, how
about everyone going to the fabled land known as Canada. I understand it
is even colder there than here in Minnesota. However, Eastern Siberia is
the absolute pits for cold, at least where people live.The only places
colder are the Greenland ice cap and the entire continent of Antarctica,
but no one lives in those wonderful places where I don't think the
camellias ever bloom.

I was once in a conversation with someone on Usenet who lived in Barrow,
Alaska and he thought it was a paradise there. He was crazy as a
Minnesota loon of course, but he drove me mad with his effusions about
that god forsaken place. Anyone for Fairbanks, Alaska?

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

I used to go to school and work in Manhattan and used a regular bike
regularly. Would commute from Columbia University to Washington Heights.
Also used to ride to my folks home on Long Island, 40 miles away.

Well, that is all well and good Beach Runner, but I do not see how it
relates to anything I said above. I am talking about really bad freaking
weather where cycling does not make much sense. Are you telling me that you
also have that kind of weather there on Long Island. Truth to tell, the
entire East Coast is a tropical paradise compared to the Upper Midwest.

No, to know true misery you have to come to Minnesota where we only have
about 3 good months for cycling. The rest of the year is a total loss. But
even in those 3 good months, we have the most ungodly wind here in SW
Minnesota. It takes all the fun out of cycling.

I have cursed my fate for having been consigned to Minnesota. However, some
jerks like Perry Butler of Alexandria will tell you that it is not so bad.
Don't believe him! Stay the hell away from Minnesota. The only worse place
is all of Canada.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota