Originally Posted by jonwvara

Still a lot of people in their 60s doing the ride.

At a restaurant in Fort Hancock, Texas, we were talking to a couple of nice older women (that is, they were about our age) and one of them asked why we were doing the ride. I said "It's just something guys do once they're so old that they're no longer of any use at home." They laughed and laughed and slapped their knees and and laughed some more--much more, I thought, than the remark really warranted. I think they read more into it than I had intended.