What "going tandem" means to us.

Over the last couple years, Ginelle and I have gotten more and more into biking, especially mountain bicycling. It's ironic, actually: for five years we lived in Asheville, one of the mountain bicycling meccas of the East Coast - Warren Wilson College even had a mountain bicycling team, for Pete's sake - and yet we never rode, other than the occasional commute to Downtown Books and News.

When we moved to Bloomington - a bike-crazy town in its own right - we started commuting by bike as often as we could manage. In fact, after getting moved into our first house, we managed to not even start our cars for a month. Somewhere along the way we acquired mountain bikes, then got road bikes, then sold our old mountain bikes for new ones. A vicious cycle, I tell ya. Pun intended.

Since then, we've taken biking trips in Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia. The picture of us to the left was taken on October 10th at the 6th Annual Brown County Breakdown. We'd just finished 12 of the 42 total miles we ended up doing that day. (We didn't look nearly so fresh and perky after pedaling the 42. In fact, our legs fell off.)

Biking is something we love to do together, and so going tandem has become a little "inside" metaphor for our wedding. Two in one!



So maybe this is what we'll look like come May 28th:

(photo nicked from here)

I'm kidding, of course. My beard doesn't get that full.

We have a band!

We're sooo excited! Why, you ask? Because we've got the best dang PA Dutch hoedown band booked for our wedding! That's right, Keith Brintzenhoff and the Toad Creek Ramblers are going to play. Can I get a woot woot? (Woot woot!)

Back in the day, Keith (that's him on the far left) taught me how to play guitar, and later I worked in his store, PA Dutch Hobbies and Music, for a spell. (Which was a fantastic job, by the by: on down time I got to hang out and play all the instruments that we had in stock.)

For those of you keeping track, that means that we're going to have a great hoedown in a barn with a custom built dance floor! Can I get a woot woot?

Ring!

This post is a bit behind, but we thought that you should know that we bought my ring a couple weeks ago. Yes! Another major piece of the wedding is solved, set, and done! It's all coming together...

We found the ring at the Fourth Street Art Festival over the Labor Day weekend. We didn't go to the festival intending to buy any thing, really, but I suppose that rings were on our minds because we wound up perusing every jewelery stand at the fest.

In Michel Plumail's stand we found a ring that I really liked. Michel is from France and his Viviana is from Chile. The ring is pretty simple - a silver ring with a gold band running through the middle - and it looked and felt good on my finger. After mulling over the purchase at Taste of India, we decided to go for it.

Right now the ring is with Michel, who is going to engrave it before sending it our way. It's a good thing that he has it - otherwise I think it'd be on my finger and instead of typing I'd just be staring at it.

We are going to have "Bound for Shady Grove" engraved in the inside of our rings.

We're getting hitched!

If you're reading this (and I assume that you are, unless, like us, you prefer to have someone read "webular logs" read aloud for you), you've probably heard that Ginelle Heller and Adam Fajardo are fixing to get married.

We figured it was about time.

This 'ere "weblog" is the place - the centralized communique corpus (CCC), if you will - where we'll be posting all the nitty gritty details that you need to know. When will the wedding be? Where will it be? How do I get there? Do I really have to wear pants? The answers to these and many other questions will appear here shortly, so stay tuned.