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Karen Stoffer, Geico Suzuki

And so the New Year begins

And so the New Year beginsFriday, January 06, 2006

Posted by: Karen Stoffer, GEICO Suzuki

Well, we didn’t ring in the New Year with a big bang: it was more of a gentle nod. We did celebrate with many friends though. Gary’s family has a condo in Kirkwood, a great ski resort here in Northern Nevada. Each year the California Stoffers and the Nevada Stoffers meet up at the condo to visit. It’s always during the holidays when skiing is at it s best. This year, we had a couple good snowstorms, but when we went up in Friday we were experiencing the beginning of a warm front so it was raining. We picked up Gary’s mom and brother and headed up to see the cousins. We had a nice dinner before we headed back down the mountain to town. Here is a picture, of Gary, his brother Dave, and cousin Kurt.

Apparently we had left just in time, because Peggy, Gary’s mom, called after we dropped her off, and said the road we were on was now closed due to rain and mudslides. Good thing, because that was the beginning of three days of rain and then snow. Minden received a good amount of snow, but there was very little at our house. Here is a picture of the snow from Peggy’s house.

Good thing we didn’t have much at our house, because we are still waiting for the shop to be built. We have the slab poured.

Saturday night, New Years Eve, we went to Jessie’s beautiful house in the mountains. He and Sherry live about 15 miles away from us. We all, including the kids in the house, welcomed in the East Coast New Year, at 9 p.m., then the adults again at midnight. Gary and I were home by 1 a.m.

The next day Gary was packing up to head back east. His part of the race season starts earlier than the rest of the team. The GEICO bike was with us here on the West Coast, and we had to get it the East Coast by Jan 18. There were also a few stops he had to make on the way. So, he will eventually end up in Florida, by way of Indianapolis. I will meet up with him on the 13th of January and again on the 18th. During the meantime I will be busy with work and completely recovering.

Oh yeah, I wanted to let you know that I slowed down the pace on blogging during the off season, however, will be back to the regular rhythm when we begin racing.

Thanks again for reading and for the e-mailed tips you provided.

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