> > Well, tomorrow I'm off on a 350 mile bike ride with my youth group from here (DC (well, we're starting from Fairfax County, VA, but for approximation...)) to Nags Head, NC (and I'm going to ride EVERY MILE, no van for THIS biker).
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> Neato. Enjoy your trek through Virginia and North Carolina, the two states in which I grew up. Your youth group must be trés cool; I don't remember ours doing anything quite like that. :-)

oh, my youth group is tres cool... it's like nationally known and stuff (not that i'm proud) of course, the downside of that is that it's big... the are like 75 kids going on this trip... and there was a waiting list, too. so you can't know everyone and have really deep relationships.... you just have deep friendships with a couple and surface with a bunch of others
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> > So, I won't be posting for the next 9 days... I get back August 8th. We're actually only biking 5 of the 9 days of the trip... 3 days at the beach at the end, and one break day in the middle... I'll be on today, from time to time, but I thought I'd post this now so I don't forget or something like that. I'm "looking forward" to coming back and having approximately 72 threads I have to read... or at least attempt to. I'll probably miss this forum at some point.... for example, while I'm going up a killer hill. "Jeez, why didn't I just stay home? I could be laughing at something on RinkWorks right now!" but most of the time I'll be having fun. So, see you guys in a week or so!
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> In order to keep down the number of posts you'll have to wade through upon your return, I promise not to make any post that doesn't contain something actually worth reading. Oops--broke that vow already, with this post. Oh well, that'll teach me to make promises I can't keep. :-)

oh well. i'll probably only read like the first page or two in order to keep up with the current conversations.... or maybe i'll go through the recent messages page and read all the threads that were replied to on there. that should keep me up to date.

uni"help, i've been reading posts for two days and i'm not done yet"peg