"Yarn
Spinner"

Well this ole yarn spinner did survive the late ride. But what I forgot from my experience last year is that it takes several nights to begin to catch up to the forever lost 8 hours of the night and it also takes several days for my body to catch up to the physical work of actually riding 25 miles on a bicycle.

I did wear a shawl and added a call name "Yarn Spinner" to it with retro-reflective tape, just in case there was another "real" spinner on the road. I also wore my retro-reflective scarf wound through my helmet. It really shows in the flash. I didn't meet up with any other textile people, but did have conversations with some of the riders.

I only got a few photos, it is impossible for me to manuever a bike and a camera at the same time. In fact it is near impossible for anyone to do so as there are thousands of bikes all around you.

The planners limit the ride to 10,000 bikers. Sending them off in "waves" of 2000 each as this fuzzy scene shows.



Here I am with my DH back in Grant Park after our reward breakfast, bagel and cream cheese, as the sun has just come up over lake Michigan behind us. We did survive to live another year.