Tag: xtracycle

Cross Town Ride

The fog has moved out to see and it was a fantastic morning for a cool crisp ride across town to get some groceries.

 

Our little girl is growing up fast, 15 months now, and we can head out for multi stop errand rides well over an hour and up to 12 miles or so.  Snacks, water and breaks in the trip are critical to success, but easy to do and keep the rides fun.  One of the bigger challenges has been in re-assessing the routes to minimize busy roads that I would otherwise ride my own bike on.  We get to see a bit more of the neighborhoods we hope to call home in the coming year and scope out the cool playgrounds.  As with kids in general the only way to understand how fun can be is through doing it.

 

Ghost Town

At least it feels that way with the fair finally packing up and moving on.  It is finally safe to come out of the house.  After lunch we went for a quick spin to pick up my entries from the photo exhibit.

The food wagons have almost completely moved out.  Quite a different scene than saturday.  We stopped at the last hall to pick up my pictures and honorable mention ribbon.  I am already plotting and planning for next year’s entries.  I decided to take a quick peak at the midway:

Not nearly as exciting with trash everywhere and things three-fourths picked up.  Then we took the long way home to check the surf.

The low clouds and fog have been relentless this summer, after a while it starts to get really old.  I know, it is better than heat waves or ice storms, but after weeks of flat gray light, bright enough to need sun glasses, but never sunny, you start to appreciate the clear blue skies a bit more.

 

Fair Days

One of the many fringe benefits of where we live is being within a block of the County fairgrounds.  It is really not that bad most of the time, but for 10 days every summer the whole county and then some seems to descend upon out neighborhood.  It is best to get out early and then home before the “Lot Full” road rage spreads for a 3 mile radius. 

Today we made it out for some quick errands we before the crowds,

It looks like the fog is going to pull back out over the ocean too, making for a great Friday.

Enjoy your weekend, and get outside.  We will be at the Fair

 

Ponies Make Everything Better

Today was a slow starting day for the Co-pilot, sleep has been rough lately with the teeth in the rear starting to make their appearance.  After yesterday’s long ride I thought we could go out on the river trail for a bit and see how long things hold up.  Once again the fog was pretty thick.

Things were going well at mile 6, but the fog was making everything damp.  I decided to pass on the playground and detour out along Canada Larga Rd.  I was thinking that some ponies and cows might make the morning a little more interesting.

It helped wake her up a bit, but like I sad we were slow starting….

after a couple hundred feet of altitude gain on the back roads the motor was feeling the slow start too, and decided it was time to point things back down hill.

The cows and bunnies were just OK, but scarring up a flock of birds was almost like a cup of coffee,

And then we were back to the ponies!!!!

Pure stoke!  just enough to keep her from falling asleep on the way home.  All in all we squeezed in about 14 miles in an hour an 15 minutes, not too bad for a loaded down xtracycle.