Venice Traverse

Tuesday marked the OWLS switching their start place from Sherwood Oaks Church to Bryan Park, like everyone else. The closures of the intersection of Sare and Rogers and of Harrell finally pushed us into it. For now we are experimenting with a 6 pm start so we stay a little bit separated from the other groups starting at 5:45. But we may go back to 5:45 if that's what people prefer.

We did a short ride north to mark the new start site, a simple 22  mile loop out and back on Bottom Road with a loop on Simpson Chapel and Lawson at the north end. Altogether we had 12 riders out for a gorgeous cool June evening.

The plan was to take in the Astronomy Open House on the top deck of the Henderson-Atwater Parking garage viewing the traverse of Venice across the sun. They were set up with filtered telescopes. But there was a huge crowd and none of us wanted to wait in line. I did take in club member John Carini's scope projection on a white board. The sun projected to a 4 inch disc and the small black dot corresponding to Venice was clearly visible.

Riding up and down the parking structure ramps on our bicycles was a blast. The Garmin GPS hardly knew what to make of it: