Jonez World

After eating beans and rice for every meal, a run in with a tarantula, a bout with the fresh water sharks, and helping some kidos with their health issues, #1 has returned to the Haven in one piece. Party! Speaking of parties, mark your calendars for Memorial Day 2008, aka. the day Cass graduates with honors!

Biking news: After a chaotic lead out from the Periwinkle Train, Adam saved the day and busted out a killer sprint to win the Hartford Crit. last weekend. The boys turned around on Monday and helped land Adam in 9th at the sprinters delight; Sommerville. I heard rumors of the P Train going head to head with the Nav’s…

Giro TV coverage catches affair in action:

According to Reuters, a man visiting the beach with his mistress made a mistake in attracting the attention of a helicopter TV crew covering the Giro d’Italia. Making an unanticipated appearance on national TV, he was inadvertently discovered by his wife.

The man waved at the passing camera crew, which zoomed in. The man’s brother-in-law saw the coverage and called his sister, the man’s wife, who he thought he saw with the man on the beach. Instead of reaching his sister on the beach, she was home, where her husband, upon returning from his excursion, would have to do some accounting for himself.

From cyclingnews.com.

Quite of few people have been asking about Casserole and her trip, and since I don’t really know I asked her a few questions. I’m the one in blue by the way…

What color shirt do you have on? white with specks of soot and dirt and sweat.

How many days in a row have you worn the jeans you have on? no jeans, way too hot for jeans. worn the same pair of shorts every day. nasty.

What is the funkiest smell you have smelt so far? today on the drive to granada i smelled something funky and looked to the side of the road in time to see a decomposing cow

Best food item? rice and beans with homemade salsa and tortillas. (you would be soooo jealous)

Who is your roommate? Julie and Jenner

Have you been shopping yet? of course, we went today. i had to go to the atm because i forgot my money. went to the masaya market which has amazing Nicaraguan made things. went to another local market–contemplated buying apiece of raw chicken covered in flies but decided against it.

Did you see the fresh water sharks? only one in the toilet at the restaurant today

Any monkeys? no just very large lizards and lots of bats in the bat caves. one flew into my head but luckily i was wearing a helmet. we went spulunking!

Have you shot anyone (with a needle) yet? no shots this trip. government will give the immunizations

Have you been drinking the water, I heard it has an extra kick? No way! we have bottled water

How many bowls of RB do you think I have eaten since you left (your cereal is good too by the way)? You better not be eating my cereal!! you better buy me some oatmeal crisp before i get back! Bowls of RB=9

Are you hablaing Espanol? Si senor. Mi espanol es muy mal.

Since it is like 200% humidity there, are you actually drinking water for once? Do you think you mom would be forced to drink water, or could she survive on her usual diet coke with lime? Water is a necessity. although I have to say that fake nalgene we bought is dumb! if it tips upside down it just pours out the side! weak! i believe that being here, my mother would actually be able to drink an ice cold bottle of water a day, supplemented by a few ice cold diet cokes with lime.

So do you miss me? About as much as I miss my homework.

Yale school of Nerds sent a team, including cass, to Nicaragua today. This is the first of what YSN plans to be an annual adventure to help immunize the children in Managua. So we packed #1 up, in not one but two suitcases, oh the horror of using two suitcases. I’ve never met another person that freaks out when they have to use the overflow (read: shopping) duffel to begin a trip with. For that matter, until we met I didn’t even know what an ‘overflow duffel’ was or that it was standard issue in the Lance family when vacationing. So back to packing, the school had each of the students take down medical supplies including needles, hand sanitizer, vitamins, surgical gloves, and cool little surgical gowns. Considering the current state of cycling I couldn’t have been happier when the needles left our house.

Nicaragua was originally settled by the Spanish, is approximately the size of New York state, home to the 2nd largest freshwater lake in Central America, and some 5,465,100 people.

Random facts:

-1988 inflation rate: 13,500% - ouch

-1990: 1st Latin American country to elect a woman president

-Nicaragua is one of three countries in the world where abortion is completely illegal

-Lake Nicaragua is home to the world’s only fresh water sharks

-People in Nicaragua have two last names. For this trip Cass is known as Cassandra Lance-Jones.

-And is home to Joya (Jewel) de Nicaragua which are rated ‘Classic.’ (I’m not sure if classic is a good rating)

-GW was cheerleader at Andover:

Hopefully #1 will return with plenty of stories and pictures to entertain you with, until then lots of NASCAR and Raisin Bran for me.

Frobes just released a list of America’s overpriced home markets and #1 on the list was…

Sunny San Diego.

Forbes states that, “A slumping housing market, where only 5% of residents could afford to buy the median home, and a high price-to-earnings ratio have made the oceanfront city the nation’s most overpriced real-estate market.” They continue on with this insightfull statement, “Had weather been included as a statistical measurement, there’s no doubt San Diego would have avoided our list of top 10 most overpriced cities, but we didn’t factor in sunshine. ”

Sounds like Forbes needs a new way to analyze real estate markets, because dude what is San Digeo without the Sun!

If you want affordable without sun move to Fargo:

In cycling news:

The team was reunited at Sterling MA. this past weekend and as predicted the boys were flying.

1. Nerac Pro Cycling - Jones

2. Nerac Pro Cycling - Adam Meyerson

3. Nerac Pro cycling - Aiden Charles

…but Cass says that I need to update ‘our’ blog. Here’s the skinny and the fat:

We’re in Redding for a little down time with the family and some friends. The weather has been great and the training is always awesome this time of year. Did a little bit of mt. biking with big ring bill, hit my favorite training route yesterday and racked up 104mi., 5300kj’s, and 16,000ft of climbing, now I’m heading out the door to recon the local World Championship course for tonight. Oh and Cass, yeah she is going shopping.

Team NERAC update: Looks like the guys rode pretty well at USA Crits. Adam scored a podium and narrowly missed an over all podium. We are all headed back to N.E. this week and it will be nice to race with the fella’s this weekend at the local events. I’m sure they are all flying after 8 days of motorpacing in the crit. series.

Many of you know that #1 and I have been temporarily relocated, for three years, to New Haven. The Haven is also home to Yale, one of the finest education institutions on earth… next to PLNU (nice choice by the way Kate). And being the home for such a wealth of knowledge many inventions have been born right here on the streets of Ghetto Haven. From time to time, when racing is slow and I’m procrastinating on home improvement, we here at Jonez World will share some of what we have retained from the 54 (and counting) Yale tours we have taken, on what makes the Elm City so unique.

And now for the first installment of Haven History:

The Frisbie:

Between 1871-1958 Frisbe Baking Company of Bridgeport, CT. sold pies to Yalies who soon discovered that the pie tin could be thrown and caught. This lead to endless hours of entertainment during reading week. Another tale has it that a Yalie by the name of Elihu Frisbie grabbed a passing collection plate from the chapel and tossed it and there by became the ‘first to fling.’ Either way, and contrary to what others claim, the first frisbie was obviously tossed here at Yale. The spelling was later changed to Frisbee to avoid copyright issues with the pie company.

Interesting eh?