Whipping on quads

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Ok it's thirssay and I'm back at the water conference because it's the only place I can get Internet amdbthe only time I really have. Yesterday, everyone rented mopeds and due to my previous history I decided to rent a quad. The sad part of this is that they only rented 150 quads which could not even get me up a hill. I dealt with it for the day because I already paid for a day but the thing was a piece.

The night before we definatly went out buy thanks to Ferdi's great being, he let us miss the conference for the day ad long as we went to the party which the Greeks hosting the conference were organizing. It was 20 euro to drunk all u can drink and consideing that a beer was 5, after 4 drinks I was all set.

Ok, I'm all over the place now but I wanna go back to the quad phenomonom. After we woke up, nick an I decided that we wanted to try to see as much of the isalnd as possible but this idea spiraled out of control becuase everyone wanted to come with us. Let's just say, some people are ametures.

Age had some trouble the day before on a moped but he decided that taking someone withhim would be a good idea for me and the first thing that happened once Lovett jumped on is that they instantly crashed. Now I had andrea on the back of my whip because caroline couldn't turn on a quad with someone on it. As soon as age crashed, that was enough for me. I was not about to put up with rookie moves like that all day, so I took off and shoe we followed me was able too keep up. Turns out that was only Gary. Andrea was hesitant for the first part of the day becuase she wanted to ride with Caroline but I just hushed this until she stopped worrying because I told her, we were all meeting at a certain beach on the other side of the island. This was true but before we left, nick and I were the only ones to organize out plans.

Gary and I were doing fine until we came up on intersections. We had a map but the roads didn't have names so we had to just follow. Signs towards towns. The problem was that the signs didn't always have names of cities that lathes my map. At this point Gary and I decided that we would wing it.

One thing you joule know is that my quad was a 150 (very small for a guy my size) and then andrea was inthe back which made going up jumped an issue. Gary wasn't very confident on the moped so we plugged along until out of the blue, Nick ran into us in the middle of the island. I van only explain this by some ok d of ESP between Nick, who was alone, and I because we ended up taking two completly different roads and the intersections were a coin flip for us. Either way, nick was so happy becuase he had gone to register for the party last night because we heard it was required sand that's when the mayhem started with abe and lovett. Unforunatly for him he wasn't aronud when I took off becuase he is one of the best riders of the mopeds.

When he showed up, it was time for andrea to switch riders because I was defiantly the slowest(and heaviest). Once andrea was off my wheels, we started going quote fast. I led because I was still the slowest on uphills (yea I'm fat) but because I had a quad, I could take turns much faster and we set up a beep system to warn the bikers of on coming traffic and hazards in the road (sand, significant potholes, and animals in the road). The quad was so slow that I could go full throttle down hill around hairpi turns just by shifting my weight siginificantly. This is what saved the day for us because I could make time on the mopeds here because there were a lot, lot of hairpin turns.

We got up to a point where we were basically in the clouds (3000' above sea level, which is where we started) and the temperature drop was rediculous. It got cold and andrea needed to wrap herself in towles in order to stay warm (I do not get cold easily).

Some highlights of the trip: we stopped many times to ale pictures. At the first spot we stoppped (we saw a sign for a "tower") the road litteraly turnned into a gutter so skinny I had to ride 1 tire inthe road and one on a curb. We got to the top of this thing, the only person with a camera was Gary and as he went to take his first picture, his batteries died (ROOKIE). Now one can only imagine being in the Greek countryside with I my an iPhone camera and a video camera. Very dissapointing. Eventually we found a place where they sold batteries but did not speak a lick of English. It took Gary about 20 min just to combine he lady in the store what batteries were. This only added to the excitement when nick showed up because he was rocking his SLR and he defiantly knows how to use it.

Another story: at one spot we stopped to take pictures and such, we saw a farm with orange trees. Fresh Greek oranges sounded so good along the story going with it convinced Gary and I to walk down through so much brush, and a stream just to pick these oranges. I cannot lie though. They were the juciest orage I've ever had but as the rookie(gary) said, it could have been the placebo effect in this case.

Overall the day was essentially perfect, with the meeting up of nick, the REDICULOUS beautiful country side and giggling andrea hanging out with us making us smile the whole day. As of turns out, just taking off as the best plan becuase the people that couldn't keep up with me, never stopped the whole day and only saw half of what we did while getting back around an hour after us. Given our trip took about 3 hours, this was a lot more than necessary.