[Nfb-idaho] bike ride

[Bill Morgan]

Hi again Ramona.
That's right! If I could of, I would have ridden.
I have been through a very very tough time, with my pain pump failure, that 
almost killed me last June.
I now have a new pump as of February, and am getting better.
I will never ride a bike again because the  doctors tell me that my 
shoulders are so brittle, that if I fall off the bike and land on one of 
them, they will shatter much like glass would, nice huh!
My heart is always with the bike ride in any case.
How much money did it do, and how many riders?

I have been doing what I can through the computer when things come along 
from the n if be nationally.

After 28 years have past, one afternoon this fall someone rang my doorbell 
and knocked on my door loudly.
I thought, what the hell is that?
I went and opened the door and someone said "Hi Bill."
Believe it or not, Ramona, it was Bran Smith.
Remember Bran? He was the guy that left with me to start on my second half 
of my walk from here.
It have been 28 years since I heard from Bran.
He now owns and runs, and fly's his own hot air balloon company.
It was sure good to see him.
Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ramona Walhof" <ramona.walhof at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Idaho Discussion List" <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-idaho] bike ride


> Hi, Bill.  I thought of you, too.  I knew if you could, you would ride.
>
> I can't tell you much more than you already know.  Lunch was the same, 
> hamburgers and hot dogs.  Ham radio operators and blind people worked the 
> water stops together.  The socks are many colors, and I think there are 
> still some left for five dollars each.  I expect to see Mary tomorrow or 
> Thursday to find out for sure.  We still have a few goody bags.  We had 
> many of the same sponsors and one new one, Jiffy Loob. Sponsors from last 
> year should still be listed on our Web Site tvcblindidaho.org, and we 
> should soon have the list updated.   And we had discounts on Jiffy Loob 
> certain locations in our goody bags.
>
> Lisa coordinated tandems again this year and does a terific job.  Mary 
> Symms-Pollot was the event Director.  Earl Hoover is learning a lot and 
> will take more responsibility next year.  Brenda did her usual excellent 
> job with registration.  Pre-registration was through Active.com.  Dave 
> Hirai, a Lion coordinated check-in after the ride.  The Boise Capital 
> Lions, my club, prepared the lunch. Laine Amoureux created a Facebook page 
> and put information up on a lot of Web Sites.   Mary recruited some of her 
> friends as volunteers.  We never have too many.
>
> Riverglen had another event going simultaneously with our bike ride, so 
> the parking lot was very crowded, and we could have used more volunteers 
> to direct traffic.  Andrew Koba played and sang, and James Brown was the 
> D. J. and played recorded music.  Ken Bass started the riders on all three 
> rides. You don't want me to go on all day, but there is some of it.  We 
> had a total of about sixty volunteers besides the riders.  It is just the 
> nicest crowd I have ever worked with.
>
> We missed you.
> Ramona
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Morgan" <billmorgan124 at cableone.net>
> To: "NFB of Idaho Discussion List" <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-idaho] bike ride
>
>
>> Hi .
>> Bill Morgan here.
>> I wish I could have ridden, but have been very ill until just the last 
>> little while.
>> I would be very interested in knowing more about the bike ride.
>> I know I didn't ride, but I did in my dreams.
>> BillRamona
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ramona Walhof" <ramona.walhof at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFB of Idaho Discussion List" <nfb-idaho at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:13 AM
>> Subject: [Nfb-idaho] bike ride
>>
>>
>>>I just thought those of you who were not there might like to know that we 
>>>had another great Cycle for Independence again this year.  Just about the 
>>>same number of riders.  We are waiting for the last check from 
>>>Active.com, the company that does our electronic pre-registration, so we 
>>>don't know exactly what we made, but it should be in the ball park of 
>>>last year. Expenses a little higher, I think. Russel Smith probably came 
>>>from the farthest, and he brought his son and stepson with him.  We had 
>>>at least ten tandems with blind people on the back and several others. 
>>>Mary Symms-Pollot did a great job of managing and recruiting some new 
>>>workers. But you probably don't want ALL the details.
>>>
>>> Ramona
>>>
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