With Rick, I rode one of his perms. He had to keep his 200km monthly streak alive to earn his R-12, and he was running out of month. We met and started riding mid-course in Hammonton, about equally distant for both of us. This was my first 200km ride in a year, and it went okay. We started out in the chilly rain; not a downpour, but enough to make us hope it would end soon. And it did, thankfully. I guess the rain washed off the lube, as my chain got chattery about halfway thru the ride. Fortunately, I had packed some Finish Line Wet lube just in case. It came in handy. I applied it outside of Bud's in Alloway while enjoying a little time out of the saddle. There, I also enjoyed my first taste of Gerber's organic baby food in a pouch. I wished I had brought a second pouch with me, it was that good and easy going down. Fauna-wise, I saw a blue heron flying very close by, plus guinea hens, horses, cows, goats, sheep and donkeys, turtles (alive and dead), red-winged blackbirds, a duck family of 5 on a pond, and vultures tearing into a road-killed deer. Flora-wise, I saw lots of pines (of course), plenty of Atlantic white cedar, blooming dogwood, wisteria, and lilacs (including some bushes planted in rows like corn (?)), plus lots of blueberry fields, all with the bushes in bloom. I hope to be picking some by July 1.