I’m back sorry its been a while but the recent chaos that has dominated the headlines over the last few days has led to quite a bit of new activity for the Institute so I have gotten side tracked from the Blog but time to fix that! After arriving at LJS we enjoyed the festivities the CAF organized and then got picked up by The Dom and Nathan and headed north. It was quite a reunion with many people asking to take pictures with us because well we are quite popular as you all know. Nathan and I were happy to oblige but the line of people wanting our photos was just too great-
so we had our PR department prepare a photo of us which we then autographed and handed out en masse-it was much easier for us. For the photo shoot I wore my fanciest duds with Nathan going a bit more classical for the photo -and despite the FAKE NEWS making the rounds, we were together during the photo shoot!! I did NOT use my high tech Photography knowledge (as you all know I did matriculate at Stanford in the Graduate School of Photographic Arts Department) to splice them into one seamless image so IGNORE the FAKE NEWS. Nathan looks dashing, of course, while I ROCK my Puffy Shirt Military Prince Uniform.
From then on it was all about getting back to Del Mar, cleaning up/organizing and going to Robertos! Many of you probably wonder how many Robertos tacos I consumed while we were there–I think I did a solid job consuming 7 Robertos Tacos in 24 hours and keep in mind only 3 of those were an actual meal (lunch!) with the rest being snacks in between meals. After arriving at L’Auberge the entire STR met us to watch game 6 of the Dodgers game vs Milwaukee and yes even our incredibly busy rock star friend Mr. Maust made the journey down south which was fantastic and greatly appreciated by Team Rylo. We never expected Maust and Dom to be able to make it so a heart felt thank you from Team Rylo! Here we have the group at the bar and robertos–You can see Maust carefully studying the menu before walking up to the window and declaring: “I will have ONE OF EVERYTHING DAMMET!” Well done Mr. Maust.
and of course Dave and I congratulating ourselves on a JOB WELL DONE!
Yes, here we have Dave and I enjoying a lovely Drakes beer at a place SO fancy they give it to you in a chilled glass….ummmm doesn’t that sound good an ice cold Drakes (blatant product placement for our sponsor)? I think so…….(sorry the angle makes us look like we have freaky large hands…man hands?)…
Since the Dodgers lost there was a momentary moment of sadness but then we realized this meant we could watch game 7 and drink more Drakes the next night–I like beer-I drink beer-do you drink beer?– why is that stuck in my head? So in no time we were happy as could be! Shred and I spent the next day doing all of our favorite things in Del Mar and I must share…
Isn’t Del Mar beautiful! Although I could go on and on I think everybody gets the point and I have captured the main themes of the ride-charity/inclusion/understanding/love/friends having fun and doing a great thing/coolness etc. I still have one more post where I will discuss the specifics of how much Team Rylo and the CAF raised along with lessons learned/new responsibilities for members of the Ryles Institute and whatever else I feel like discussing its my blog I can do what I want. BUT before I sign off lets get a few questions from one of our favorite people Mr. Tom Tierney!
“Hey Rylo how was the CAF vs the normal Ryloride?” Great question Tom and before I answer I have a quick question for you–I assume that your family knew at a young age that you would be dashingly handsome and quite studly but at what age did they discover that you were one of the 10 smartest people in the world? I look fwd to the answer TT but for my question–Both are fantastic and we REALLY liked doing something great for a wonderful cause and the CAF people couldn’t have been nicer (and the rooms/food/support were FANTASTIC) but we did miss just having the normal Ryloride team for the whole trip…well I guess in the end we did get everybody to join but Bobby…hold on major crying situation……almost…hold on….oh wait another wave of tears….BUT Bobby PINKY SWORE he would attend Ryloride 6!
AND Bobby is ALWAYS on our mind as we ride for some reason…
Wait, TT has another question–“Rylo–why not more of a focus on Mr. Walton?” Another great question TT we love you! The reason I took the Walton focus down a notch was because we have already focused a lot on Bill. Don’t get me wrong we love him and he is our inspirational leader (I assume everybody has read his book…) but with 165 riders and 31 of them joining in RPV the demands on his time were high. We did chill with him and have some great chats at breakfasts/dinners etc but I refrained from trying to capture it all this year. We did get invited to his house for dinner again BUT we didn’t go because we all wanted to watch the Dodgers game/its over an hour each way AND we had just spent 3 days with him.
One more post is coming I better make it good!
