Tour of the Gila

What a great opportunity! One of Holly's National Cycling Assignments was to be the Chief Judge at the Tour of the Gila in Silver City, New Mexico. It was quite the experience to officiate a race that had Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner, and Floyd Landis as racers. They bring along quite a lot of media/photographers who follow them, or should I say who follow Lance. I talked with a photograper who was there from Italy, since this was the race before the Giro in Italy. I got to work with some great judges. Fred and Delfina who live in Silver City and brought us lunch and snacks every day, and Joan.






The three of them worked great together and truly made my job easy.

Stage 2 started and finished on Fort Bayard. Richard's parents, Harold and Bonnie are buried there. Once the race got started, I was able to go up to the cemetary and leave some flowers for them. It is a National Cemetary and truly a beautiful, peaceful place. Looking over the cemetary with all of the white headstones representing the many people who have served our country in the military is truly a spiritual experience. So many have have served our country, died for our country, allowing me to have the freedoms that I enjoy. Thank you to those who continue to serve to maintain the freedoms that those who have gone before fought for.




Regan and Shyla came over to Silver City from their home in Deming, one night for dinner. We had a nice visit and a nice dinner. It was great to see them. I wish that we all lived closer, it is hard to visit when we live 1000 miles away. Thanks for dinner.

It was a GREAT week of racing, working with fun people, and eating Mexican food every day.