No early morning alarm or ride-out today...Jon had gotten a ride to the airport for his early flight home so Tracy and I climbed back on our bikes to head to a nearby cafe for breakfast, where we chanced on a fellow rider who works at Emory University, so it gave us an additional enjoyable visit with her over a very yummy breakfast.
Then it was time to disassemble and pack our bikes as the airport shuttle was coming mid-afternoon for our flight home at 6. Note: it's never a fun task to take my bike apart after a ride; it's more a letdown but it's all part of the process. However, it's always a good feeling when it's packed and all of the pieces accounted for; we did a final sweep of the fraternity house where we stayed for the weekend, returned the keys to our campus contact and headed to the airport.
It was a hot day in Atlanta on Monday...80-some degrees but when we got all checked in for our 6PM flight, we were looking outside as the sky turned black and heavy rain pelted the huge windows, when there was an announcement that the thunderstorms in the area would delay our take-off...we left an hour late, which had my body clock at 2AM when I finally got home, too tired to do anything but immediately get ready to drop to sleep!
