Ride for Alzheimer's '99 Photo Album

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Here is the Avalon Hotel in Erie, PA. This is where my trip began.

This is an example of the incredibly scenic shoreline of Lake Erie.

This is a SAG Wagon during a stop at Barcelona Harbor. We got Gatorade, water, cookies, etc. at these stops. The SAG Wagon drives our route and meets up with us periodically throughout each day's ride.

Some of the very scenic Barcelona Harbor.

The PA/NY border. I have my hand on my head to signal the SAG Wagon to stop for me. My rear tire had a slow leak. The SAG Wagon also carries repair tools and supplies.

These are some of the great straight roads we saw early in the ride, where you can see little other than cornfields and farms.

Me and the luggage truck at the Econo Lodge, Canandaigua, NY.

Many acres of purple cabbage seen on trip in NY.

A family I met while they were having lunch on their 300 acre dairy farm.

Holiday Inn, Syracuse, NY. Lodging for Day 3 of the ride. No, that's not all my laundry! I took a swim in their outdoor pool.

SAG stop between Syracuse and Little Falls, NY. The bikes are not broken, we just don't have kickstands! My bike is against the pole at right.

I just had to take this picture. :-)

This is probably as close as I'll ever get to Woodstock!

I just had to take this picture, too. :-)

Here is my hotel room at the Best Western, Little Falls, NY, on Day 4 of the ride. 1 suitcase. camera bag, and bike.

Me with my bike behind the Friendly's in Latham, NY. My wife, Donna, was close by at the Youmans family reunion at her parents' home in New Scotland, NY.

Me and my roommate, John Guehl, and opthalmologist from Pittsburgh, PA.

Labe, Darilyn (of Darilyn.com), and Bob. Darilyn kept a really great online day-by-day account of her own Ride.

Here I am on the summitt of the Berkshire Mountains. You can see the "Ride for Alzheimer's" shirt I wore during the entire ride.

This is the "route rap", behind the Candlelight Motor Inn. Doug Terosian, our tour director, is explaining the next day's route. A route rap took place every night just after dinner.

Laura, Art, Diane, Sandy, and Paul. We came across this restaurant just as it started to rain very hard. It was Diane's birthday and Sandy bought her a birthday cake! Very nice people! Laura rode the cross country route on her recumbent bicycle.

Our bikes were kept under this covered bridge during the rain storm.

That's me - Alzheimer John!

Rye Middle School, 2 miles from Willis Sands State Beach in Portsmouth, NH. We gathered here prior to our police escort to the beach and the Atlantic Ocean.

Wheel-dipping ceremony in the Atlantic Ocean.

Me and Jenny Seifert, member of the NH Alzheimer's Association Board of Directors. She gave me a ride home to Ledyard, CT in her car. Very nice lady!

These are some pictures from the party I threw for all my supporters in August of 1999, to thank them all and to show them some of the great things that their support did for me and the Alzheimer's Association. It also gave everyone a chance to meet Al Harary, the Director of the CT Alzheimer's Association, and hear first hand how appreciative they all were of my unsolicited fundraising efforts. Also pictured, with myself and Al (and my bike!) is my wife, Donna. Without her continual support, none of this would have ever been possible.