A Wacky Weather Story...

Hello, friends! 

It's been a long time since I've posted, hasn't it?  Well, the past week and a half or so I have been in California at a conference.  It was a great time, besides getting sick but I am happy to be back in the great state of Missouri and happy to have the chance to be biking again! 

This week there wasn't much biking but I thought I would share with you a story that reminded me of something that I hear a lot in around here, "If you don't like the weather in Missouri, wait 10 minutes, it'll change."  =0). 

Meg and I left California on Monday morning.  Our flight was @ 6:50am.  LAX, the airport is about 40 minutes away from my house without traffic (if you're lucky), and there is usually a good number of people flying out of LAX, especially on a Monday morning when all the business folk are travelling.  So, we decided that the absolute latest we could leave the house would be 5am, meaning we had to be awake by 4:30 to get ready to go.  Early, right? 

Wanting to get through the airport as quickly as possible, I did 2 things Sunday night.  I printed our boarding passes (which ended up not mattering because we had to check a bag anyway).  And I checked the weather so I knew what I needed to wear to the airport.  Taking off and putting on shoes can be a hassle in the airport, especially since all my shoes have laces, so if I can, I will wear sandals to airport in order to get through the line quicker.  I looked at my phone and it said: Saint Louis: 74 degrees tomorrow.  Sandals, here I come! 

Here is what actually happened.  By 74 degrees, it actually meant THIRTY-FOUR degrees.  And, of course, with the windchill, it felt more like TWENTY-FOUR degrees.  Wait, it gets better.  I couldn't even put on socks and shoes at baggage claim because my clothes weren't completely dry from when we did laundry the night before.  So, I saved a few minutes getting through security but almost froze off my toes back home.  (For the record, it was 74 degrees in Garden Grove on Monday.  My weather app must have mixed up my current location and where I was searching for weather). 

As I was thinking about this, an interesting thought occurred to me.  Neither the weather prediction or the actual weather felt like it was out of the ordinary to me.  If you had told me it was going to be 74 degrees in Saint Louis in mid-March, I would have believed you.  If you told me it was going to be 34 degrees instead, that would have also seemed perfectly reasonable. 

I suppose that is the beauty of my great state.  The only thing you can expect from the weather is something unexpected.  =0). 

Stats: 
Places: Just one trip to campus
Distance: 4 miles ($.39)
Meter: 2.5 hours on campus ($2.50)

Total: $2.89
Grand Total: $325.65
Left to Save: $257.38

Happy Biking!

~Adam