After a year break team Easy Riders returns for a two day Cowalunga tour 2007, 130 mile bike ride in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin to benefit the Respiratory Health Association.
Our 2005 Cowalunga Pictures and 2005 Cowalunga blog Post.
Finally had a chance to get away and get a little backpacking in this summer. Check out our three day adventure around Grand Tetons. Of course the Ranger screwed us by trying to send us on an old trail that was supposed to be a shortcut around “the wall” but thats the stuff that campire stories are made off…
Here is how it started
Given busy work schedules, etc. we’ve decided on an extended weekend trip this year instead of the usual 6-night venture. Art has stepped up and come up with a pretty cool itinerary for a trip through the Teton range, after Brandon sold him on the location. Basic idea is to take off Thursday/Friday/Monday and do a 3-night trip with travel days and some time in Jackson Hole on either end. Hikes will be about 10 miles / day, with lots of time for fly fishing in the afternoon.
I think this accomodates almost everyone’s issues. Pete- you get to fly fish. Curby - you get to go before football starts. TJ - we’re out on Sunday and can do our 17-miler in beautiful Jackson Hole instead of pounding pavement on the W&OD. And all you work-aholics - you don’t have to take off a whole week.
Thanks Brad. Finally for the quote of the trip… will it be “chunky but Funky” or “Ranger Bullshit”?
Its not how fast you run the first Chicago race of the year, but how many free beers afterwards you can consumer that counts.
Here are the official results and below is our team’s results.
Bib FName LName City State Country Age Sex ChipTime ClockTime Overall SexPl DivPl
412 Steve Kindred Chicago IL USA 36 M 0:35:41 0:37:17 1313 1118 209
5340 Andrew Kucharski Chicago IL USA 34 M 0:38:52 0:40:30 2580 2061 451
2755 Ken Antles Chicago IL USA 37 M 0:39:34 0:41:10 2863 2260 425
6305 Julia Knippen Chicago IL USA 31 F 0:46:53 0:48:29 6502 2021 404
20051 Jennifer Weiss Chicago IL USA 35 F 0:47:35 0:56:02 11200 4510 550
5572 Jennifer Krupinski Chicago IL USA 35 F 0:52:49 1:01:15 14779 6563 784
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Team FILA Windward Steppers represented today at the Husstle Up the Hancock
The overall results can be found here, Our team’s results are below (yes, its very dorky, i know):
Hustle Up the Hancock
94 Floor Climb
Chicago, Illinois February 26, 2006
Overall Results
Place Name Div/Tot Team Name Time
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1 Terry Purcell 1/452 9:39 * top male finisher
5 Cindy Harris 1/376 11:10 * top female finisher
282 Steve Kindred 89/452 Fila Windward S 15:57
367 Andy Kucharski 107/452 Fila Windward S 16:28
751 Scot Lara 153/360 Fila Windward S 18:24
958 Ken Antles 236/452 Fila Windward S 19:18
980 Marla Wasserman 92/369 Fila Windward S 19:26
1008 Tomas Hoang 247/452 Fila Windward S 19:34
1474 Wayne Borsheim 328/452 Fila Windward S 22:13
1488 Jennifer Kruprinski 180/376 Fila Windward S 22:17
1609 Jennifer Weiss 204/376 Fila Windward S 23:03
1653 Pam Sfikas 214/376 Fila Windward S 23:24
1712 Linda Tovar 225/376 Fila Windward S 23:58
1735 Jennifer Braasch 229/376 Fila Windward S 24:11
1991 Laura Lara 278/376 Fila Windward S 26:48
2004 Mara Levin 281/376 Fila Windward S 26:58
2244 Morgan Sage 324/376 Fila Windward S 31:48
Mara and I had the pleasure of attending Ketan and Berta’s wedding in Barcelona on November 17th. The wedding took place at the Barcelona City Hall in the La Plaça Sant Jaume.
Aside from me getting into a little trouble everything was great. As you can see, I thought that it was customary in Spain for the guests to kiss the bride at the reception. I guess I was wrong.
Guest Kisses the Bride
Groom sees guest kissing the bride
Guest gets powwwed!
Note: No kissing or punching actually took place, photos curtesy of Scott Placko.
We conveniently stayed across the street from Ketan’s apartment and then we rented a temporary apartment for accommodation in Barcelona. Pictures and stories from the celebration of the week long wedding to come.
Over the years Mara and I have visited some amazing places. We have stayed at a lot of wonderful hotels and have been welcomed by friends and people who are amazing at their hospitality jobs. However there are a few which especially stand out in our memories. I want to recommend and share some of these with you.
The first place on our list is a hotel which was strongly recommended to us by Alyssa Banta, a US photographer who for years had a second home in Delhi. She recommended this haveli in Jaipur saying its an ancient sanctuary and respite from the craziness of traveling through India. She was so right. This ancient governors place was up to western standards with a great mix of colonial and traditional service. The food was great, the variety of rooms they had to offer were fantastic (we stayed at a mini two level apartment with a balcony) and the pool the best city pool I have ever been to. The structure resembles MC Escher drawings. Highly recommended.
When in Jaipur, be sure not to miss this gem.
Samode Haveli
Jaipur, India
A HERITAGE HOTEL
reservations@samode.com
91-141-2632407