[OrRando] Snoozeville pics / brief report

[Bill Alsup]

Thank you to everyone who came out for the Snoozeville
Populaireo on March 8th. (I tried to post this on
March 11th, but the server was down.)
  
Pictures (taken by my friend Bob Good) are at 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tangobiker/sets/72157604100714029/
He took a lot of pictures at the Cornelius Pass
Roadhouse, as well as many on Dairy Creek Road. 
  
Included among the 84 finishers were two guys named
Brian List (one from Olympia & one from Portland ...
which initially confused Susan and me), and two
well-prepared unicyclists: Leif Rustvold and Max
Taint.
   
Thanks to Mike Bingle for his help at registration,
and to Susan France for her help and expertise
throughout the event (including the secret control).

It was amusing to see how much more accurately the
non-super-fast riders answered the second info control
question. I guess a quick peripheral glance doesn't
offer the same detail (like the difference between
orange and red) as does a more deliberate inspection.

Sorry that the pizza joint in Forest Grove wasn't more
accommodating. I didn't anticipate that they wouldn't
deal with larger groups of bikers as well as they do
with smaller numbers (like on a permanent).

Cheers,

Bill

PS: Nice message from Paul Lack follows:

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Laak
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:14 AM
To: bill at viscountstudios.com
Subject: From Snoozeville with...

Hello Bill,

Thanks for the ride. That was our (Paul Laak, Kurt
Modahl, and Bill Butz) first Oregon Randonneur's ride
and we had a great time. It takes Billy a little while
to warm-up, like after Mountain Dale, but then  Kurt
got a flat. Everyone who passed us offered help. Then
you had apple juice at the turn-around.

Once we got to Maggies, there was a line of like 10
cyclists with just as many already finishing up. I
assume it was Maggie who came out and said.. "Hello
cyclists. I said Hi to the others, but you're all
new."

And then she looked at me in line and reached for my
ear-rings and said... "Those must grab air." 

And I said... "Yeah, and at the right speed they
whistle."

Nice place!

We hope to do the Birkie!