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| New Dancing Shoes! |
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| A Cycling Fashion Statement! |
And we've been doing some longer rides. Every ride becomes my new favorite ride!
One day we rode west of Petaluma along Chilino Valley Road and out to Tomales (the small town.) Such gorgeous scenery but a real bugger of a head wind and cold at that! But I would do that ride again for sure!
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| Riding Like the Wind, Except when I'm NOT |
And then yesterday, I did a 53 mile trip! My longest yet! We drove up to Windsor (north of Santa Rosa) in a thick fog and 54 degrees. I wasn't sure how the weather forecast was for 100 degrees, but true enough after a cup of coffee at the Bad Ass Coffee Shop, the blue broke through and off we went. WOW! Essentially we rode back roads from Windsor heading west. Then up along Westside Road and West Dry Creek Road to Yoakim Bridge. We then turned east and south. During the trip we crossed both the Dry Creek (not very dry) and the Russian River. The entire route was through vineyards (very little other agriculture); past wineries; scenery of the golden hills, through oak and redwood trees, 2 one lane bridges, and view after view! An incredible ride through California wine country. Only 1 hill in 53 miles (of course at the end of the ride but mostly in the shade); and not so much of a headwind. Absolutely lovely. Very little car/truck traffic and all most all of it was respectful and careful in passing us. Many other cyclists out on the road with us.
And at the end: soft ice cream to ease the car trip home. I'm doing that ride again soon!
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| Dry Creek had plenty of water |
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| One Lane Bridge |
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| The Harvest is about to start, but we tried a few Grapes & YUMMMMY |
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| Hop Kiln along Westside Road |
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| a few road side stands |
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| Lunch Time in Geyserville |
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| Double or Nothing at the end of the ride. |
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