[Pickup] This Saturday: Bike the national Green Building Open House (GBOH) tour

[Bob Rossi]

disc-lovers,

the peeps that be are working on the logistics for our halloween hat
tournament.  it will be during the last weekend in October.  So be
ready to get your game on!  ...as well as a wig, stockings, and a cute
little chiffon number.   ...or whatever tickles your pickle.

Also, I'm looking for format or theme ideas that live up to this great
holiday.  I'm taking all comers.  Gimme what you got.

And now for something completely different...  I'm organizing a casual
bike tour this Saturday that I think should interest outdoors-oriented
people in general.   This Saturday is an annual, national Green
Building Open House (GBOH) tour, where people showcase the various
renewable energy or green building aspects of their homes, and I'm
planning on doing a bike tour of a half dozen or so homes.  I'm
looking to see if anyone is interested in joining me and also to get
feedback.  I sent it to a biking list as well, but you don't need to
by a cyclist... just a person with a suitable bike.   I'm happy to
shift the schedule or adjust the loop to accommodate more people.
It's more important to me to get others to join me in a low impact
tour of these great green homes.

Our local GBOH tour happens to be one of the biggest in the northeast.
To get info on the houses being shown, download the guide from the
link on this page:
 http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/environment/greenbuildings/tour.htm
My proposed bike loop visits the first 7 houses in that guide.

You don't need to do the full loop.  The full bike loop is 39 miles at
a moderate pace and it assumes about a half hour rest per home plus a
half hour between legs for breakfast and lunch.  You can do just part
of it.  For example, two people plan to meet us in Trumansburg and
bike only the Trumansburg loop.

Tentative schedule below.  (the house #s reference the guide)

Leg 1 - Breakfast Ride - 8am - 13 miles
 - Gather at Greenstar
 - Head out on a beautiful lakeside bike ride along 89 to Taughannock
 - Then up to Trumansburg for breakfast at _______(suggestions?)

Leg 2 - Trumansburg Loop - 10am - 14 miles
 - meet in Trumansburg (for breakfast) at _______
 - to house #1 (2.1 miles)
 - to house #2 (3.9 miles)
 - to house #3 (2.8 miles)
 - to house #4 (4.9 miles) ...lunch
 - those doing only this loop can ride back to Trumansburg town center (7 miles)

Leg 3 - Return to Ithaca - 2pm - 12 miles
 - meet at house #4 (lunch)
 - to house #5 (4.1 miles)
 - to house #6 (3.2 miles)
 - to house #7 (0.1 miles)
 - to Greenstar (4.5 miles)

Contact me directly if you might be interested so that I can update
you on changes to the schedule or route.  Also, please share any ideas
or suggestions that you may have.

Thanks!
 --boB

ps For a map of the above bike route, copy and paste this in your web browser...

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