I have been with the TDG all week!! Yee Haw!!! I am writing this at the Lake Lanier Islands, nice, across the hall are the CSC team and Slipstream, don't see much of the guys though, I reckon after the race they is restin and gettin their massage on as I did see a massage table set up in one of the CSC rooms. In fact all the teams are here, sometime they will put the riders up and a 2nd tier motel but for last night and tonight they are all here. On my birthday I rode in the VIP car #2, they announced on race radio that I wuz in the car and it was my 50th so everyone wished me a happky one. And yes I brought Hilllbilly flavor to the VIP car, a few hoots and hollers out to the crowd and me and the driver took a natural out in the Ga red clay. It was a pretty wild ride, we would go back to within about 200 meters off the front of the peleton, and when the one rider got a 2 min gap we were allowed to go back between him and the peleton and ride just behind him, coool. I took some video and will put something together, the driver was Darrah from Ireland and he asked if I was gonna make him famous, you know it. I have been handing out some stickers to some of the mechanics, rock racings guy got a hoot out of it and asked for a couple more, and Darrah got hillbillized too. I have tons of pictures but I forgot my password for photobucket and my blog is a little difficult to post pictures but I have one or two I'll stick on there.We didn't bring our bikes with us, we are carrying too many hands and don't have the room so I will probably gain 10 lbs this week although I have been running in the morning, the food is too good to pass up.It has been a blast, best birthday ever, driving the truck throwing out the KOM hands is a hoot, we travel bout 30 min ahead of the race and stir up the crowds in the UCBI Avalanche, and two HHR's, so when you see those Fri, and Sat holler at the hillbilly, in fact Isomebody ought make a sign...... Hillbilly STOP HERE!!