Day 3 - Vantage to Odessa

Daniel, our ride leader, escorted the 37 Big riders across the Odessa Dam

At this time the riders have been identified as the ridiculously fast (chuck, liz and tony), the fast (ed, joe, steven, tracy, katie and me), the not-so-fast. we can't wear an ipod during our ride for safety reasons so noah and chad sang "the greatest song in the world" by tenacious d to entertain us. soon enough we had 8 guys singing a bohemian rhapsody, some backstreet and mmmbop. who needs an ipod when you have the Big Riders Acapella group?
We set up camp at Odessa High School and a group of us went to the public pool to relax the muscles a bit. The little girls of odessa had a little crush on our mechanic nick and egged him on to do a bellyflop off the diving board. He's not much of a diver, so just about everytime he does jump off the board it looks like a flopper (stick to cycling, nick). I didn't want to make fun of him because we just met and he still has to fix my bike. After our dip, steven, who just turned 20 yesterday and nicknamed "the rocketman" because he rode shirtless, wore a camelback and when he took it off, it left a rocketpack tan line on his back, tinkered with my bike for about 10 minutes trying to fix it but didn't improve the situation. nick pushes us aside and after 30 seconds, voila! all better. He's our saving grace.