[trip-list] foreman in GA

[drewish@katherinehouse.com]

Back whenI was younger I worked part of a couple of summers for my uncle cleaning up construction sites near Atlanta, GA. One of his foremen was an old tough looking fellow, you'd always see him drinking a cup of hot coffee no matter the time of day. I finally asked him, in that tone kids use when they realize someone's doing something different and they think they might be able to make fun of them about it, why. He reckoned that if he was drinking something hot  then the day's heat couldn't really bother him. I wasn't entirely satisfied with this but since I'd never seen him sweating in the hot and humid Georgia summer I left it at that. Now a few years older I think he had it right. I sit outside all day as it gradually heats up and it doesn't bother me. I go inside an air-conditioned building for 10 minutes and the sweat starts pouring off me when I come out.




If I can digress for a moment in this already long email and detail a bit of my touring history and the theory it's inspired. I consider the ride across Nevada on US-50 one quickest ways to appreciate the mentality of laying siege to a mountain. It's a demanding ride, you're carrying almost 2 gallons, a full days worth, of water. It's scorching all day, freezing at night and you'll see almost no one almong the way. With nothing to distract you from the riding--towns and water, are all 50-80 miles apart--you find yourself crossing two major passes a day. Up one side you'll start, longer and 



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