5/10/09 More like family

This is a bit of a different story. But a bike ride is involved. I have always been blessed with great friends. This story is about some of those friends . I do not have a lot of family, and the family I do have I am not that close to. The past 3 years or so I have spent every Thanksgiving and Christmas with people who are more like family to me than anyone I know. My friends Dale and Tammy, and for 3 years now Tammy has asked me to take her for a bike ride. I always said I would, but never got around to it. I don't know why, no reason for it other than I never made the time to do it. Sometimes we put things off , we all do it. These people have been such a big part of my life the past 3 years, I am ashamed of myself for not making time for this ride sooner. Sunday may the 10th, Mothers day, I picked Tammy up at 1:00pm,,,she said she wanted to visit her Mom around 3,,so we take off on route 50 west towards Mcarthur Ohio where we pick up route 93 north. We run rt. 93 north to rt.56 east. We follow 56 through the Hocking Hills area. When we reach Laurelville we pick up rt. 180 and run that back to Chillicothe. Not a long ride, about 89 miles,,It was a nice ride, the weather was a little cool but not bad. I enjoyed the afternoon with someone who is like family to me,,the sister I never had. I just hope she enjoyed the ride as well. She was a little nervous because she had not been on a bike in a long time, Tammy,,sorry it took so long to take that ride...