More PALM Doings

Last Saturday was a real winter day. I ran in Hines Park and didn't see a single biker: a first for this winter. I did see 2 deer and passed within 20 feet of them. They didn't seem concerned. My brother was in Atlanta on the weekend. The definition of winter weather is different in Altlanta. It got down to the 20's and they had some snow, maybe 1/2 inch. They closed the mall. On the crawl space on the Sunday news they were announcing the churches that would be closed because of the weather. Martin Luther King's church was closed on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. On the way to the airport, my brother passed by intersections that were cordoned off by police tape: ice in the intersection. My brother was driven to the airport by a guy from Grand Rapids who almost couldn't drive because he was laughing so hard. I wonder how the bikers were doing there.

We had a PALM meeting on Sunday. The sites are coming along nicely. (For Midland one year we had to keep changing the school we were going to stay at. The one we finally got was reconstructing its kitchen and cafeteria when we stayed there. It made the meals interesting, but our site co-ordinator, Bev Totten, worked thru it all. Nothing like that so far this year.) We got a chance to see the tentative route. (The optional century ride of 102 miles will go thru Michigan and Ohio. We tried to get it to go thru Indiana too, but it didn't work out.) The applications are printed. Generally we label and stamp the applications for mailing during this meeting. This year we are having the printer do it. They will be tabbed and mailed at the end of this week. We looked at a mockup of the tshirt in this year's color. It's a dayglo light green and is really bright. When we all wear them for the parade, you should be able to pick us up on satellite. It will make it look like the tour went thru Chernobyl. All in all it was a quiet meeting but it was nice to see everybody.