Loooong Weekend

Who says we are old. Being young and foolish we decided to take a 1600 mile 3 day road trip in the Xterra over the long weekend. We did not take the bicycle because we knew we would be driving all of the time. On a drunken whim (Wednesday night) we left Flagstaff Thursday at lunch on a mission to surprise Lee's son Barrett as he was playing the part of Harry Potter in "A Very Potter Musical" in Susanville CA.  He was surprised, we spent the night with Joe and Lisa, had coffee, tea and scones, and were off for Flagstaff and in bed by 11:00 pm Saturday night. It's a blur like that last sentence.

Well it's safe to say we did not ride Sunday. I did spend several hours installing the new chain rings and tuning the bike and getting parts and tools together. We finally returned to riding today (Monday) when everyone else was returning home from their weekend. I really like the wide shoulder on Lake Mary Road especially when the road is full of weekend warriors and their toy hauler RVs. I will give the drivers around here a lot of credit as we have not had any close calls. As with any place I've bicycled the school bus drivers are the biggest assholes. Maybe it's all of the little shits in the back that cause this attitude. New Rule (term stolen from Bill Maher) Allow school bus drivers to use duct tape to take care of problem little shits (tape mouths, hands, arms, legs, genitals, what ever it takes). There problem solved. Be happy school bus drivers and give bicycles room.

Oh yea, we got almost 42 miles in today before the rain, including a couple of long intervals. Intervals around here always include someone chasing us or us chasing someone. Today's were fun because of the comment made by one of the riders that caught us as we were turning off for the car. "Shit, it's a tandem with two old people and a handlebar bag".