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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #72 - El Dorado, Here We Come!

11.10.10

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.

Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
See how we move.

On the second year of this bike ride, you might expect:
- more inconvenient passageways
- more full moon picnics
- perhaps more "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- certainly more amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- dance parties
- karaoke
- imaginary histories
- scavenging for fun and sustenance
- more geocaching
- more oblique strategies
- more Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties

Furthermore:
- A medium pace (maybe not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- We're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light.
- 30-ish miles this week; a few hills
- Victory donuts!
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This week:

El Dorado, Here We Come!



For centuries, the legend of El Dorado - a city so rich in gold that even the paupers bathed in its shiny dust - captivated explorers in the Americas. First the Spanish conquistadors in their funny helmets; later the British in theirs. Many expeditions set out in search of the city, but none were successful.

Historians believe that various iterations of the legend were based on exaggerated (or simply fabricated) stories by conquistadors returning from the field, mistranslations and overly hopeful interpretations of local folklore, and the natives just plain messing with their oppressors.

But what do historians know? They spend all their time reading books when they should be riding bikes!

Ask yourself: could El Dorado really be just a myth? Just a hoax? Just a sublimated expression of a society's unease with the glaring disconnect between its actions and the moral framework that it uses to justify them?

NO! El Dorado is real! El Dorado is still out there! Now, you understand, this is a valuable secret here, just between us and you. In fact, some people-in-the-know charge as much as $29.99 for this kind of information, but we here at The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time feel that you deserve better. You deserve more. You deserve to experience the joy of searching for the gold yourselves. And we will give it to you!

Tonight, my friends, we set out in search of El Dorado!

Fair warning: you should probably start shopping for yachts and Ferraris now, just so that you won't be completely overwhelmed by all that new wealth when you arrive in the city of gold.

30-ish miles this week; some hills. We can't make our usual promises about returning in time for the Red Line. We will, however, be (quite appropriately) close to the Gold Line for much of the outward-bound leg of the ride, so should we find ourselves running late, the option to bail will be there.

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