Saturday's Ride Photos
Official PMC Start - 6 am -
Sturbridge Host Hotel
This
is an official PMC photo - we are boxed in the lower right corner. Carl
waves just after the start. An
unidentified patriotic rider, just after the start. Here
is the very leading edge of the riders rolling east out of Sturbridge on
US-20. The police will hold crossing automobile traffic while the 2,200
Sturbridge riders pass. This is the first
significant climb on Saturday. The piper does a great job of inspiring us up
the hill. It's about 6:30 am.
Here
is the crowd at the second waterstop, at the
Jefferson School in Franklin. In a great example of the contingency planning
by the PMC, we were held at this waterstop for
about 45 minutes to allow the police to clear an accident on I-95 that had
massive traffic diverted onto the roads on which we would have been riding. Wrentham – Cherry Street – approx
10:00 am A
right turn down a neighborhood street in Wrentham yields a welcome
celebration: flags, red ribbons, cheering hordes, shade and water spray for
those who want it - camera in pocket for that! More
welcoming folks in Wrentham. Costumed Supporters Disposable
cameras need faster shutter speeds to do justice to Uncle Sam and Lady
Liberty. You
know itÕs too hot and youÕve been riding for too long when you see a merman -
not even ethel - directing trafficÉ Saturday Finish – Mass. Maritime Academy, Bourne,
3:00 pm There's
always a great crowd greeting arriving riders at MMA. Like a mall parking lot on
December 24É Tanker
in the Cape Cod Canal courtesy of Maersk lines. Where
again are we parked? Here
are the support vehicles for the ride, having arrived at MMA for the night. Li'l
Bertha at Mass. Maritime Known to the PMC as "Lil
Bertha," the Navy calls her APL-66.
She sleeps 230 sailors, and was home to at least that many PMCers for Saturday night. In 2000 and 2001, the Navy
lent APL-61,
"Big Bertha." The
inviting entrance to Lil Bertha. HereÕs
the view from the "sun deck" on Lil Bertha up the Cape Cod Canal. This
is the view of the PMC crowd and tents from the top of Lil Bertha. Here
we are at dinner under the tent at MMA. |
Here's
the PMC's map of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. We stayed in Dorm 6.
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