Rides

The Glaser’s suggested adding a fifth house, at 2316 Bryant, to Tuesday’s tour. While checking it out I also discovered a delightful group of skeletons roasting marshmallows at 2332 Bryant. Rather than add two stops to the tour, I decided to make a slight change to the route so we can do a ride-by instead. The change adds no distance to the route, but if you have already pinned, downloaded, uploaded, or printed the route you will have to do so again. Here is the link to the route: Halloween House Tour 2024 · Ride with GPS.

Tuesday: Halloween House Tour – October 29^th – 9:00 AM – Panera

This week’s Tuesday Moderate Ride will be a tour of over-the-top Halloween decorations. We’ll visit four homes between Evanston and Highland Park with enough ghosts, ghouls, and monsters to make your eyes bug out. We’ll visit a site in Evanston and another in Glencoe before lunch. After riding as far north as Fort Sheridan, we’ll turn back south for lunch at Once Upon a Bagel. Following lunch, we’ll visit sites in Highland Park and Kenilworth. Some EBC rides regularly pass the Kenilworth and Glencoe sites, but I am unaware of any rides stopping to more carefully examine the decorations. The Highland Park site, on the other hand, is one we have regularly visited in October for several years. The Evanston site is off EBC’s well-worn paths and some place most Evaston residents will not come across unless they know it is there and go looking for it.

Here, from my own library, is a link to the route I will be using: Halloween House Tour 2024 · Ride with GPS. Neither aesthetics nor taste were taken into consideration while planning this route. Over-the-topness easily reached by bicycle was my only criteria. I will ride at a moderate (13 – 15 mph) pace. With enough interest there will be a second slightly faster group led by Will. The total distance is 32 miles. With four tour stops, a rest stop, and a lunch stop, don’t expect to set any speed records or personal bests on this ride.

Take lots of pictures. I’m planning on a selfie with a psycho killer clown in Glencoe. Send your photos by email, full size and one at a time to the EBC scrapbook: scrapbook@evanstonbikeclub.org.

Tuesday’s forecast is nearly ideal for this undertaking: Mostly cloudy skies with a high temperature of 81 degrees and winds from the SSW at 15 to 25 mph. Gusts of over 40 mph are possible. Ok, maybe I’d prefer more sunlight and a bit less heat and wind, but I’ll take what I can get. It’s not much fun stopping to look at decorations when the temperature is 40 degrees.