Originally Posted by
stevel610
If you practice the holiday I'd like to learn something about it on the ride. Seriously. Prayers, traditions, how you and your family participate/celebrate it.
Sorry - Presbyterian here; but 20+ years in one Jewish law firm or another (as the token goy) have, at least, given me some awareness. I find comparative religion to be fascinating.
Here's what wiki has to say about it.
Happy New Year
Originally Posted by
turtlewoman
I am so jealous!! You guys are always getting together to ride. I wish I could go along, not that I would be able to keep up yet, you understand. There are a couple of people here in NM but they are in Albuquerque. Now I'm bummed out--think I'll go true my wheels or something!

I think that you'd be able to keep up on this ride. It's almost entirely on old rail/trail so minimal climbing...long way from Santa Fe, though. Why don't you ask at the collective? I'm sure there are group rides.
Here are a bunch of NM clubs.
Originally Posted by
rdtompki
It's so unfair to name a ride after food that's unobtainable on the West Coast. I can still picture a huge open-faced grinder covered with cheese sliding into a sandwich shop oven in Framingham, Mass. (from 30+ years ago).
But you got these guys: