A candisc picture I left out...but wanted to include

Yep...Just wanted to share this one as well...more posts to come
Perhaps later tonight.

"When I think about religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who cannot believe: the Confraternity of the Fatherless one might call it, where on an alter, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine. Everything to be true must become a religion. And agnosticism should have its ritual no less than faith. It has sown its martyrs, it should reap its saints, and praise God daily for having hidden Himself from man." - Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

Soundtrack of the moment, Brian Eno - "Ambient 1 - Music for Airports"

Candisc Rapid Recap

Welp. I messed up. Let me tell ya...

I messed up.
I did. I started this whole blogging thing and poof. Look!, Almost two months later...no posts, no updates.

Well here is an update. Recently I told you that I would be heading to ND in order to take place in CANDISC, a 7 day ride across ND.

Well I went.

And suffice it to say it was a blast. For those of you who are facebook buddies, be sure to check out some of the great pictures that are on facebook....for those of you who aren't...well...add me...then check it out.

We traveled an average of about 70 miles or so per day...and it was intense but alot of fun.
Before leaving I spent a great deal of time working up and building my bike. His Name is"Cerberus"

Props to the guys and Sunrise Cycle and Freewheel for helping me find so much of what I needed.

Oh...someone should note. Someone should say it...only because every person and their respective parent commented something to this effect...

If you truly believe that North Dakota is flat...
then you have never been west of Fargo.

We dealt with hills constantly...and I kid you not there was a day where we climbed the first 40 miles or so....1,000 feet. (think I'm kidding? I'm holding the elevation chart) so it was intense. But that having been said it was great and that was part of it.

Weather was mostly alright...though one day (while most of us did not) I managed to hit a patch of hail...so that was exciting...and I in the process had a bungee chord disconnect from holding the bag on my back rack and wrap around my back tire. I was lucky it did not destroy the thread right there and possibly end my trip entirely.

This used to be a bungee chord.
Scary moment.

The trip wasn't perfect. But it was fun and I certainly wouldn't take it back. Matt (my riding buddy) and I were really the only ones ridding steel frame bikes (with a few exceptions), with most people riding carbon fiber blah blah... My only real complaints are that the other riders on the trip weren't that much fun overall...middle aged men with serious beer guts joking about riding in the support van and lying to their friends about riding the whole way. My other complaint would be that I thought that the camping aspect of this trip was going to be more legit camping. Instead we found ourselves camping next to small town highschools and churches and such. While that wasn't really an issue, I was convinced that part of my registration money was going towards real campsites.

Home Sweet Home. And a sign that I found in a rinky dink town we stayed in.

We found sheep! Which was exciting to me. Crosby, ND















Oil rig burn off spot...saw several of these. There was all sorts of beautiful
scenery...wish I could fit more.

And in the end...we celebrated...with expensive cigars.

All in all it was a great trip. So much fun. Won't do it again next year. I'll do something different, Matt and I had talked about doing something entirely self supported. Well...that is all on Candisc for now. I'm sure I'll tell more stories later. Expect a few finished projects and things to be posted about within the next few days. 48 Hour Film fest Recap is coming up soon!

Take Care,
Erik

Soundtrack of the moment: TV running Governor DFL Primary numbers as they come in. (also Against Me "Jordan's First Choice" in the background...I multi-task well.)