Sorry to be offline for so long, but we’re glad to be back. We traveled from Deerfield, Ma back to the Bay Area in quite short order at the end of October. We stumbled upon a bit of a health scare which kept us in our Bay Area stomping grounds until December. Thankfully all is well now.
We spent the holidays with Paula’s family in Southern California and have just settled into Catalina State Park in Tucson for the next two weeks. Friends of ours from Washington will be arriving soon, so we’ll be able to do even more triking with them.
This morning our friends Judy & Gail stopped by. They live here in Tucson so dropped off great bicycling maps for us to begin our exploration with. Poor Mariah, their Yorkie, was not pleased with the cool morning temperatures. We’re looking forward to seeing them for dinner on Sunday.
After breakfast we were washing up our dishes only to see a woman with a Recumbent Retreat hat on. We struck up a conversation to find that she rides an HP Velotechnic Pedelec also. Turns out Kate and Pat are traveling in a Mercedes van that they have continued to do upfits on, not unlike us. From them we learned about magnetic latches to keep drawers from opening while driving. We’ll have to try these!
After much conversation about the vans, we all decided to try the bicycle trail. We got 10 miles out and based on the lateness of the hour we started thinking about a late lunch/beer. We found Noble Hops Gastropub. A flight of beer and a split order of bangers and mash, and we were ready to resume our ride. The desert is beautiful and the ridge is dusted with snow. Check out the photos below. We’ll resume our riding tomorrow.
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