FLCC> Lake como ride on Sunday

[Michael S. Moorhead]

Having done Skaneateles (41A) several times, I set out with a friend last
summer to find this infamous Lake Como that I had evidently been "spitting
distance" from on several occasions.  I add to the consensus that it does,
in fact, exist.

The thing that struck me about the ride, however, is having no memory of
pedaling my bike from the Lake to Moravia (we started in Groton).  Has
anyone else noticed this local realignment of the gravity vector?  This is
very different from most of my experiences elsewhere in this neck of the
woods.

Ali and I will be moving to Terre Haute, IN this August.  One of the things
that we noticed (other than having no hills) is that anything large enough
to collect water is called a "lake".  I'm going to miss our REAL lakes...
Wait, is this the way people up on Lake Ontario talk about our measly finger
lakes?

Best,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: flcc-bounces at icycle.org [mailto:flcc-bounces at icycle.org] On Behalf Of
Bill Goffe
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 4:50 PM
To: Wayne Gottlieb
Cc: Flcc
Subject: Re: FLCC> Lake como ride on Sunday

I'm ruining the humor, but it is amazing what you can find on-line:
http://maps.yahoo.com/broadband#mvt=h&trf=0&lon=-76.30198&lat=42.677577&mag=
3
At least for this part of New York, Yahoo's pics seem to have better
quality than Google's.

You can even count the cottages...

     - Bill


Wayne said:

> Contrary to common misconception, Lake Como does exist.  I've been on
> the ride 3 times and I saw the lake on two of those occasions.  On the
> third occasion I blinked. Wayne --- LiLynn Graves <lg75 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have never joined the FLCC sunday group rides before but I had a
> > Sunday off and wanted to do a long ride. Don Fitterer mentioned
> > suggested this ride and I had such an awesome time.  I would like to
> > thank all that were on the ride for the great time and all the
> > entertainment that came along with it. Although I never saw this "Lake
> > Como", the ride was beautiful and the company was perfect. One person
> > claimed there were lots of cottages around the entire lake and another
> > person claimed there were 4 cottages on the lake.  I'm starting to
> > wonder if these guys ever saw the lake themselves.
> > 
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