Well I did my first long(er than a weekend) bike trip – five days but only a little over a thousand miles. I ended up spending more time visiting family and friends than I did riding. I went out to central PA then up to central NY before coming back home to NJ. Only about 600 of those miles were actually getting me from place to place though and the rest was recreational riding in some very beautiful areas. South Jersey is just so flat, I’m easily impressed by anything resembling a hill. Give me an honest to God mountain and I’m ecstatic. I still love the Jersey farm roads, but there aren’t as many of them as there used to be, and riding past brand new cookie cutter mansions where there used to be peach orchards just pisses me off. Any way, on to the pictures!

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About – I obviously missed the boat on this one since the writer’s had four books published since the website but it’s hilarious. Seriously laugh out loud funny. Lord knows I enjoy arguing about the most ridiculous things. Case in point: On a phone call with my brother tonight, I was trying to convince him to give me a hat from his ladder company to wear when I need to cover my helmet hair. He says baseball caps look stupid on girls and since we have an attractive family, he won’t help me shame the family name by providing me with a hat to look stupid in. Oh, and also it will make all my babies ugly. Because the hat-wearing seeps into your genes obviously. And the argument went on into other ridiculous directions, amid equally ridiculous arguments about other ridiculous things. To be continued at dinner tomorrow. I will get that hat.