Greetings from the banks of the Sacramento River and Sacramento, the Western Terminus of the 2013 Re-ride

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FROM: Larry Carpenter, NPEA Corresponding Secretary
June 25th, 2013 PST

Greetings from the banks of the Sacramento River and Sacramento, the Western Terminus of the 2013 Re-ride. Congratulations Tom on your excellent coverage of the Re-ride.

Thanks for Posting the News Clips sent from On-line editions of newspapers on the XP Route. More to come. The Weeklies will start publishing tomorrow and Thursday. Combined with the Reports and Photo Albums it gives those of us still to Ride, still to go out and help with the Ride, and those who have already ridden an opportunity to catch the excitement of the event, and to anticipate being a part of the Ride. The Photos are great.

It is great to see many friends I have met over the years on the Ride and at Conventions actually riding. The You Tube additions this year are even better.

We in California are getting ready to Ride. Saturday June 15, the California Division had its Swearing In and Ride Dinner in Shingle Springs. Gary Moore and his crew did a great job putting the Dinner together.

Rich Tatman, State Ride Captain and President, will be at Stateline awaiting the Incoming mail, and will Swear In the Outgoing Rider Davey “Doc” Wiser. On the 26 and 27th the Division will take the mail out of the Lake Tahoe Basin and over Johnson Pass (nr Echo Pass), and through the woods of the Eledorado National Forest, across the South Fork of the American at Brockless Bridge (the mail is literally airborne…it goes across the rushing water by cable as you know) 44 Rides later the mail will be in Old Sacramento, on the banks of the Sacramento. The last Rider will deliver the mochila which left St Joe on the 17th to 2nd and J, in the shadow of California’s Pony Rider Monument.

Wow…..1966 miles, 8 states, and alot of corn and wheat fields, prairie, mountains, sagebrush, wind, rain, and sun! Great effort by all involved in the Ride, especially the horses and riders. I always tell people that we do reenactments of the Pony Express with the dedication of the 1860 Riders. Ralph Petty, of the Sacramento Regional Post Office will be in Pony Express Plaza to accept the Mail. In fact, the letters will probably be Cancelled right on the spot.