Today I completed my goal of riding 100,000 miles on my various bicycles since I resumed riding as an adult in May of 1972. So many wonderful memories of companions, places visited or passed thru, and challenges imagined, formulated, and accomplished. Thanks to all of you who rode along for any of these miles. What a wonderful 44 year saga.
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A very nice ride today that Tom structured with me and his two riding buddies Florence and Kathy. All three of these folks usually ride 1.5 times my normal velocity but today they were content to cruise to the Ventura Beach Promanade which gave me time to chat it up with them, fun. We split up shortly after the Promenade as Kathy and Florence elected to ride back to Carpinteria via the Lake Casitas loop while Tom and I rode back to Stackys in Summerland for a wrap each and a nice visit. After my wrap I rode on with Tom to the Biltmore before turning around and heading home so I could surpass 50 miles for the day.
Thanks to all for a wonderful outing. As usual click on any image below to see an enlargement and start a slideshow from that point.
Carol was honored as the Horticulturalist of the Year, very wonderful. She included Ralph and I in the honoring evening which took place at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. As shown in most of the images below Ralph and I explored around for an hour or so before the event itself got started.
I drove down to Mountain Air Sports this afternoon to test one of their Hobie leg driven kayaks. It was very fun and interesting.
Now I have to decide whether I want to own one or no.
I dug out my four year old GoPro yesterday and charged up the batteries for my aquatic outing, a GoPro specialty. Alas, as when I was on the moto trip to Mexico, I neglected to remember to check and clean the waterproof case during the outing so several of these shots have a smudge in the center of the image. In Mexico it was a bug that splattered on the GoPro so half that day’s shots were shot.
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