We took a long loop ride (20 miles) to a park that's about 6 miles from home, had a lovely overnight, then took the short ride home after breakfast and breaking camp.
3 miles out stopped to fix Perry's flat tire, felt smug when we found the offending staple, and had it patched in about 10 minutes. "Hmm, it's not holding air." This thought repeated as we found and patched all 7 holes! More like 1.5 hours total. Lesson learned: Neither of us remembered to pack our spare tube and it's going to be a tube a piece.
We had good sun, but battled headwinds of 17 mph with gusts to 25 mph. Stopped in sweet town of Tumalo at Farmer John's to buy a picnic dinner, rather than our original thought of setting up camp and biking back to town for burgers. Had a good sunny table by the river for our picnic while the hiker/biker camp "dried" from sprinklers that had been on when we arrived (makes for mass moisture under the fly). Slept mostly warm enough under our new quilt (first outdoor test in this quilt and tent) in spite of 32 deg. overnight temps. At dawn there were a skajillion songbirds, which Carol was sorry Perry couldn't hear. Frost was still on the bikes when we broke camp and headed up the hill to home.
Got home in time for Perry's knee injection and a short list of minor "to-do's" that will improve our experience next time.
~Carol and Perry
Photo: not my bike, but an old gasoline engine bike in the yard where we fixed the tire. Would love to know the story, but the locked gate and No Trespassing sign quelled our curiosity.
Sounds like a good test run. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know about the blog Carol. I'm really looking forward to following along. I will MISS you so much and it will be good to get to "see" you every once in awhile.
Genevieve
(Jenny Marsden)