I swung back by the camp guard shack to let Chris know that I stayed with site 204, used the rest room and head out for Lake Placid at 2:44p. As I was carving down US28 headed east, I passed 2 other motorcyclists headed in the opposite direction. The leader gave me the gesture to slow down. I did slow with the thought “I cannot see a police officer out here since there are so few cars and we can only go so fasss…ut oh!!” as two deer grazed on the left hand side of the road. I passed Blue Mountain lake where I stopped to take a picture on the way to the camp. I stayed on 28 and it turned to 28N.
This country went in my internal memory databank as one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been. I finally learned what this decal meant as I rode into the town Long Lake. I have seen it a number of times on vehicles have never chased down what it defined. It was of a mother bear following her cub and at the bottom in a san serif font prints “Long Lake”. Now I know, it stood for a nice quaint, quiet town next to Long Lake in the Adirondacks. "These areas must have been known for bears one day!"
There’s something about being on time for me. Even though this was a VERY leisure meet, I worked hard to be on time. If I looked at it from an overall perspective, being off 20 minutes for the trip thus far was not too bad but that did not matter, late was late. I’ve got this anal-retentive issue about being late no matter where I go. And if I am late, I allow it to disrupt my mentality at the event, whatever it may be. It did not regarding this meet (probably because I had never met Brian in person) but I did find myself frustrated for running a bit late. And although I would meet with Brian and Danielle 50 more times over, being 20 minutes late on every one of them, I still would meet again. But the meet reminded me that I needed to not ride with others or meet with others on trips. Until this point, I was pretty easy and relaxed. I need to learn to let even very personal meetings be late sometimes. It’s just something I put myself through. I felt very rushed in trying to be there at the time that I claimed.
I went to Brian and Danielle’s hotel and found that they were in the center of town. I rode only a few minutes away to meet them.
Have you ever met anyone that until the time of the meet, you had only spoken with the person over the phone? Isn’t it interesting how you establish an image of the person and they look TOTALLY different when you actually meet them? It ends up being so confusing for me because after I see what they look like, I constantly battle with myself regarding the ‘real’ image of the person as I speak to them. Fortunately, this meeting event, I had a very good idea of what Brian looked like because I had seen a picture awhile back. Brian works for Insight, a technology resource. I have been using Brian and Insight for about 4 years now (because of Brian’s thoroughness and competitiveness) almost entirely. If you are looking for anything regarding technology, give him a call. 800-467-4448x2282. He’ll take care of you. Brian and his fiancé Danielle drove down to Lake Placid from Montreal for a short break since I was going to be in the area. It gave us a good excuse to hook up and do some food.
We hopped in their Canadian Honda, I buckled the Canadian seatbelt, and could not help but to notice the Canadian Phil Collins CD. We went had had a nice dinner, though I had to force Brian to try piece of sushi by threatening him that I would start doing business with the goof balls over at CDW. I ate light because I knew that I had almost another 2 hours of riding to get back to camp. I did not want to become tired on the way. I had to be rude and get going. We went back for their hotel and had a quick cup of coffee before I took off. I was surprised with a few ink pens as gifts.
Brian sitting on the ACE with Danielle at his side...
