aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
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Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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We got caught up in Eclipse Mania and enjoyed it quite a bit. We traveled to Independence, Missouri (near Kansas City) to stay with an old friend of my wife's. We stayed for four nights. On Sunday, we got to take a ride in the countryside. I've barely spent any time in the US Heartland, so that was nice for me. Our hosts had a tandem which my wife and I rode. They rode their single bikes. The tandem was very difficult for me to handle compared with my tandem.
Monday, the event was suspenseful because the weather forecast had a good chance of rain and thundershowers. We had a long and intense thundershower, and it cleared up right when the eclipse began.
My wife prepared a great playlist on Spotify with songs for the occasion.
The high point was when the sky got dark, the temperature dropped, and nearby coyotes howled!