from the ‘engage your outrage’ dept:
As you may know (since I never shut up about it), the 5th annual Braking the Cycle AIDS ride came and went this past weekend. As with every year before, it was an amazing experience, a “traveling bubble” of personal excellence, of striving, of kindness. A roving caravan of humanity, stretched out a hundred miles at a time, over three days.
They rode from Gettysburg to PA on their bicycles, and we MotoSafety folk rode in front of them to get to and block the next intersection. We rode behind them when it got dark so our headlights could show the way. We rode next to them and cheered them on (or scolded them for not riding single-file). And I, personally, got sick and couldn’t sleep all that well at night. Sigh. Still, the fatigue and up-before-dawnity and the long hours were worth all of the smiles, and the tears, and the wonder. I can’t wait for next year.
If you’ve got some time, come check out the 118 or so pictures I took along the way. They don’t capture the personal element as well as being there, or the fisty pride, but if you want to see that in person then you’ll have to register for next year!
