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Day Twelve: Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2000

  Well we are in Dallas. We sleep in pretty late and it feels great. Stephanie is coming over to spend the day with Beth and myself. She has the day off from work. Little does she realize what we have in store for her hehe! It's watering time...

  After Stephanie arrives we sit around chatting for a bit. We decide to drop off the pictures and have them developed so we can give them copies before we head back to Huntsville. While waiting for the pictures, we decide to get Mexican food for lunch. This gives me and Beth time to relive our riding stories for Stephanie. Then once she is ripe for the plucking, we snag her, "Hey... you want to go get a Cycle Trader and check out the used bikes?" To which she enthusiastically responds, "SURE!!"

  Shane has no clue what he is in for hehe. We have to run all over the place to find someone that still has a current Cycle Trader. Eventually we find the last two at a gas station so I get them both. Then we race home to start browsing the pages of wonderful bikes. Stephanie has got the bug! It is only a matter of time now..."

  Dad is going to be leaving work early and driving up to Dallas with a trailer so that we can trailer the bikes back to Huntsville. Beth's is not really rideable, and frankly, I am pooped! He finally shows up around 8:00pm or so and we get the bikes loaded. Having to come get us was all the excuse he needed to buy a bike trailer he had been wanting for some time now. It is a nice roomy one. We pile in the truck and head for home after saying our goodbyes. It is nearly a 3-1/2 hour drive home. We stop for dinner as well, so by the time we get home it is after midnight and we are all beat. We opt for unloading the bikes tomorrow.

  It has been a long week, full of fun and adventure. It was everything we had hoped for and more. We can't wait to do it again. But for now we are pretty beat and are just happy to be sliding into our own bed again. It's great to be home!


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