Monday will go down in our lives as a very special day! We were truly treated royally by the town of Urbana and the Simon Kenton Pathfinders. Stan and Roy rode 50+ miles from Waynesville to Springfield and on up to Urbana on bikes trails (the best being Simon Kenton).
Upon arriving we were given a lovely welcoming letter from the Mayor and City of Urbana by Bruce Evilsizor, the city of Urbana's Director of Administration. We were also given a bag of treats.... maps, calendar, pens, an Ubana city pin by Larry Lokai, city councilman. A reporter from the Urbana Daily Citizen was there to interview us. Wow, did we feel like celebrities or what?! Nancy Lokai Baldwin, president of the Simon Kenton Pathfinders and her husband Frank hosted us in their home Monday night. Frank barbequed and Nancy cooked up some of her delicious home canned veggies and a special potato casserole that I must get the recipe for. We woke early Tuesday morning to Larry Lokai's voice shouting, "We have bad news and good news.........Stan didn't make the front page of the newspaper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..................................................Helen did!" Stan's comment, "I ride 2,500 miles and I get the back page! Helen rides 200 miles and gets the front page! What's up with that?!!! All joking aside, it was a beautiful article, and we are very grateful to all who made us feel so very special.....what a wonderful group of people!
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