My New Buddies

I couldn’t have asked for a better group to bike and spend my vacation with.  It is a diverse group and each person has had such unique experiences. They have also taught me so much, inluding:

1. Don’t pull the cord that hangs out of the ceiling in the bathroom- it’s a helpmeI’vefallenndIcan’tgetup thing, not the flush for the toilet.

1a. If you do pull said cord, make sure you are in the appropriate bathroom, genderwise.

2. A husband and wife can actually build a house (as in floorboards, walls, roof with hammers and nails) without getting a divorce

3. Never get a couple’s massage in Cambodia.  For-that-matter, don’t get a bath in Cambodia either.

4. It is okay to eat Nutella for breakfast.

5. Yale’s most popular course was on the Cold War, Cornell’s was wine tasting (Indiana University’s most popular course was “Wildlife eatibles”)

6. “Making Ideas Happen”- haven’t learned anything perse in this category yet, but the author also happens to be in group (how awesome is that?) and the book is already in my Amazon shopping cart.

7. I try not to ask too many logistical questions about how people actually live in NYC, but having 6 people on the trip from that city I have learned that people can live there (and that there are people whose job title is “dog walker”).

8. You can physically pass out from a heat treatment message (more than once).

9. There is such a thing as yoga for intense people, and it’s not target shooting, it’s called power yoga.

more lessons and stories to come…