Well, here we are, finally getting around to a GTR 08 report!  Bottom line?  Great rally!  This was our first GTR even though we had registered twice before!  (Illness/injury kept us from going two years running).  As it turns out, this was the ideal year for a bunch of Floridians to go!  It was *almost* as flat as it is around Clearwater!  I posted some details and a few pics on the RideBoards under the Florida/TampaBay forum, so I’ll try not to repeat much of that, but there are numerous thumbnailed pics at the end.  What I want to do here is tell you about OUR Georgia Tandem Rally! 

This was actually a double vacation for us.  Last year we decided we needed a “guest bedroom”, (as most in Florida do … in the last 6 years, we’ve had company 13 times for a total of 48 weeks!), and since Maggi and I both love to camp we decided the perfect “room addition” was a small camper!  So we bought a used 22 footer dirt cheap, towed it home and parked it by the pool.  We already had a sewer hookup on that side of the house installed by the previous owner, so all I had to do was install a 30 amp power line and bingo!  Instant RV park!  Pool-side guest quarters complete with a/c, cable tv, full kitchen and bath!  And when we want to go camping, we can just hook up and haul ass!  

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I ran across this article by Alan Snel, (http://tinyurl.com/4yf4mz), while surfing over the mornings RSS feeds.  I’ve been riding in this state since 1972 and never knew about this road!  Sounds like Maggi and I are just going to have to ride it sometime this year! 

Even sounds like a good route to plan a regional tandem ride!  We tried that last year with a Suncoast Trail ride but had to postpone it twice, once due to weather and a second time due to illness.  After that, everyone lost interest.  But we’ll try again.  Maybe this time we can get something going!

Naturally, we’ll post whatever we come up with on the TandemRides RideBoard.

Bill