Fall / Winter Activities

A letter from your local "Get Outdoors And Do Some Fun Shit" coordinator...

a) Tour de Fat, Oct 13th, Tempe Town Lake. (Bikes and Beers festival) A few of us have talked about costume ideas, and the need to keep the costume easy and cool (temperature-wise) has resulted in a tentative choice for getting everyone to dress up like Devo. You know, the band that sings Whip It. We're going to make some Devo hats (the Power/Energy Dome as they call it). Other than that, all we need to do is wear all black (t-shirt and shorts) or black shorts & white t-shirt and a red turtle neck (just the neck part). These photos will give you some idea of what we're supposed to look like. I think 10+ of us rolling down the road, whipping it good, will look awesome.

The tentative plan for the ride to/from is from Paul & Nicole's house at the southeast corner of Beck & Laird (Univ/Beck). It's 1149 W. Laird Tempe AZ. Meet at 10:15am and bike to Tempe Town Lake to register for bike parade starting at 10:30am. While it's up to you (I would personally say it's not optional) you might want to buy a rear red blinkie light and a front white light for your bicycle as it's a law after dark. Something like this would suffice and is less than $15.

b) Thanksgiving Weekend Camping. Is anyone interested in skipping traditional Thanksgiving and going camping for the long weekend instead? Please email me if you are. I have a turkey fryer and was thinking we could fry a turkey or even individual cornish game hens while camping.

c) Cool Weather Activities. As you may know from last year, cool weather marks the return of Sunday Croquet/Bocce in the park (Indian Bend Park). Also, I'd like to do a big park party @ Kiwanis Park with beer permit and also get some sand Volleyball going. Stay tuned for more. Scottie/Rebeca, you guys going to fire up weekly volleyball again this fall?

d) Camp Halloween. Traditionally I have a pumpkin carving party around Halloween. I am considering turning this into backyard camping party so nobody has to drive afterwards. My backyard is big enough to accommodate a bunch of tents and the weather should be beautiful for sleeping outside. Yes, there will be a campfire and s'mores. Tentatively Nov 3rd.

e) Bike4Beers. While it's technically possible to get a DUI on a bicycle, unless you're completely trashed and can't obey bicycle traffic laws, it's not likely to happen. That being said, I want to put together a bike for beers at some point this fall. Probably mid November.

f) This is a long f)ing email. In the future I plan on doing one or both of the following. Start a blog and pre-post stuff so you can read it at your leisure. The other involves cellphone participation using Twitter.com. It's text message based and allows you to "follow" someone's short message postings to twitter. For example, I, or someone else subscribed could text to Twitter's website "Croquet in the park this Sunday, 4pm" and everyone following that user's account on Twitter would receive a text on their phone with that message. For things with short notice it's a pain to email/call everyone, and hope they got an email, or even manually text message everyone. Twitter is pretty cool. Check it out and if you want to follow me go to http://www.twitter.com/goodgnus.