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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 18:56:38 EDT
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From: "Brian Casper" <casper@ascc01.ascc.att.com>
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Subject: RCR IV followup, RCR V plan, Re: Ravi's insomnia
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Boy it's great to be back at work <cough> <cough> <puke>...  I've finally
finished sorting through the 895 some-odd messages that piled up last week
while Kristi and I toured northward in our post-RCR 2622 mile byway jaunt.
Whoever suggested the route through PA 443->895->Wind Gap, thanks.  It was
a wonderful way to start our journey and I'd recommend those roads to anyone
wanting to cross PA from near Gettysburg to the northwestern corner of NJ.

>From there we spent the next day with my parents in Lafayette, NJ.  Next
we trekked through lower NY state to New Haven, CT to get free room and grub
from my brother.  Then it was off through Mass, up VT 100, stayed at a B&B
in Stowe, crossed into Canada, hassled our way through customs, hung a left,
hung another left to get back into upstate NY, had no problem with customs,
crossed the Adirondacks, stopped back in at moms for more free food/bed,
re-crossed PA to the southwest, overnight near Cumberland, MD, down through
the WVA mountains, passed near Cass, crossed into VA, down through the
Peaks of Otter, into Altavista, and fiddled our way back to Raleigh.  At
this point, I've seen more farmland than you can shake a stick at, and
bounced over more frost heaves than any man should ever have to...

Jim, thanks for a wonderful RCR.  Ian, the coffee was exquisite.  Martyn,
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  Everybody else, good to see
you again/nice to meet you...  Can't wait to do it again next year.

Which brings me to...

Some things I need to respond to:

Cliff said:
> [ ... ]  Brian Casper  [ ... ]  pledge stewardship over RCR5  [ ... ]
Then Martyn said:
> [ ... ]  Brian's offer still stands, right?  [ ... ]
Then Ed said:
> [ ... ]  The front runner for RCR-V Oom-Pah is still on the road [ ... ]
Finally PoPs said:
> [ ... ]  Okay, we'll wait  [ ... ]
And on the TriDoD list, miscellaneous bikers added:
> [ ... ]  Dont [ ... ]  let [ ... ]  Brian [ ... ]  back [ ... ]  out [ ... ]


Oh Christ!  You guys are serious about this, aren't you.  ;-)  That'll
teach me to let you put words into my mouth...

It looks like there's a conspiwasy going on around here   =8-0
                        ^^^^^^^^^^  <-- RCRIV location joke

I suppose I could be up for it, but it's way to early to tell.  I'm
about to switch jobs within AT&T (Aug 1), and I don't know what my
free time availability is going to look like.  Let me get that
straightened out, then I'll see what I can do.  As far as commitments
and dates go, I suspect location firmation will probably begin to take
place in the early part of the year next year as it alwasy seems to
have done in the past.

In any case, the summer is not over by any stretch and I plan on
exploring much more of the western NC/eastern TN/southern VA/WVA area
before it's all over.  I'll be keeping my eyes out for possible sites
knowing that Turkey Tom is out. Thurmont gets my vote as a repeatable
location, but I agree that we should try to mix it up a little each year.

Bill McLoone, if you have an overwhelming desire tackle this task, just
declare yourself Oompah, take the reins, and it's all yours (in the spirit
of Oompahdom this option is open to anybody willing to commit to it first...)

Ravi Narayan said:
>     questions that continue to keep me awake at night:
>
>     - the buell? whose bike was it?

mine.

>     - does charlieS really ride a motorcycle?

Certainly, but I think he was caging by doctors orders...  I followed him
down the BRP at last years RCR in a pissing thunderstorm while he was
riding lovely Duc 807 i.e.

Now go back to sleep ;-)

-Brian

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