After the bike ride – Installment Five

We're back from Tahoe.  It was Mr.Toad's Wild Ride.  We finished cleaning the cabin just in time and left just as it started snowing.  The main road, Highway 50 has been closed because someone drove off the side of the road down a one thousand foot drop.  It has happened before - there is only a three-foot stone fence along the narrow edge.  Cal Trans has finally decided to put more protection up along the edge.  Therefore, the only road to Tahoe on our side of the lake, south shore, is Highway 88 which is steep and slow.  When we got to the avalanche area, the summit, the snow was bowing so hard it was getting impossible to see.  I could only see trees that were directly beside the road.  It was a white-out.  A little further, quite a few cars had skidded off the road into low areas and we passed one bad accident.  The highway patrol should have put up chain control much sooner than they did because all those cars involved had no chains or four-wheel drive.  We were in Bob's pickup with four-wheel drive so we went along okay, but very slow.  This in the middle of May.  Crazy.

Here's the lake the day before the snow started falling again.

This shows the total white-out across the lake.

Back to the Colorado story.

After the bike ride – Installment Five

     The bike riders started coming to the finish line.

They had a ceremony in front of the Focus main building after all the riders came in. 

Here's Brian who was on my ride.  He's the one who put his hand on my back and pushed me up the hill in Napa.



Tom and I.  Tom was the staff member who rode with Terri and I the first night into Napa when I wouldn't quit.



just before the ceremony began.



Money collected from eighteen months of bike riding -
$2, 140, 543.47.




Ryan Dobson





NOT DONE YET - FOUR MORE EVENTS UNTIL WE RETURN HOME.