Leader Orientation

Alright so I finally got my blog setup so now I can write my first blog entry ever. To anyone who plans on keeping up with me I promise to update this as much as possible, but I also warn you that it will most likely not be incredibly frequently.

We just finished our first official day of leader orientation. Our program director Brendan is down here telling Angela, Dan, Scott and I whats up. We all got in last night, got settled then went out for dinner. We went up to the road and went to a place called "Dirty Dicks" for some seafood. It was a pretty cool place, the food was good, and I got crab cakes & a T-Shirt.

We still have a good amount of work to do before we're ready for the rest of the riders to show up on Wednesday but we're in pretty good shape. We went for our first group ride today as well. We broke in our new Jerseys and road about 10 miles up the Atlantic coast and back, it was a good road and really nice to get back on my bike after not having it for over 2 weeks. We almost got off to a really bad start when some teenagers in a run down Bronco decided that we shouldn't be riding on the road. They told us to get on the sidewalk then pulled in front of us and started slowing down, but eventually got bored and drove away. Hopefully that's the worst thing we run into, but I highly doubt that will be the case.

I can't wait for everyone else to get here so we can get going. Dan has a great orientation planned out for us so as long as everything goes according to plan we should have a good send off. We're getting police escorts through two counties across all the bridges to the mainland which should be cool. Its a good thing too because the bridges have no shoulder and riding across them alone would not be fun. Nothing like getting someone run over on our first day. Anyway, we're going to do some more work then watch a movie and go to bed. The weather is suppose to be awful tomorrow, but at least the forecast says it will be nice for our first day on the road.