SOME SHORTCUTS ARE NOT SO SHORT--

Nine of us were in the second half of a 22 mile, round-trip ride from Cardington to Waldo, OH last Thursday when part of our group went sailing around a road closed sign to see if we could overcome this pesky detour.  Another part of our group that was out of sight ahead of us was oblivious to our maneuver and evidently, rolled merrily along their way.

That's Ken Johnson in white above, already across the first barricade while Ute Volk waves to her encouraging followers and Doug Versaw is, well, pondering things.

While those three and a couple more riders, Edie Humphrey and Lynn Rush, hoisted their bikes over and slid themselves through the barricades Tom Hadley and I reversed course with a pair of recumbent bikes too big and heavy for such exertion.

You guessed it.  The sign-obeying contingent got back to the start location first, followed by the two recumbent riders who rolled past the outlet end of this detour before the adventursome folks emerged from the bushes on the other side.

...all to everyone's delighted amusement.

That amusement will exclude, of course, any later reports of poison ivy attacks.