December 16, 2024-Internet has been down a few days, here is a "Catch Up" of our rides!

 December 5,  We headed over to the 8th. street Walmart to pick up some toys to give to "Toys for Tots"! We had to go through the "URBAN Jungle Trails" to get directly over there and that store is the closest to the Colorado Springs Police Department, downtown were they had a "drop off" box for Toys for Tots. Kinda cool we ran into a Retried Marine who was picking up toys, they had two full tubs of toys so we added ours and headed out for bit more of a ride! 

December 7, We rode different trails and lot's of back streets with bike lanes to get over to where we could access the Sand Creek Trail off of Airport Blvd bike lane. The trail heads south to a bridge, then it goes east and south. We wanted to see if they continued the East trail over to and under Powers Blvd to hook up with the new Sand Creek Trail section under the new Hwy 24 and Powers Blvd bridge! Well we found out they did add some more concrete trail BUT, it's blocked off before Powers Blvd due to "flood damage" that took more than half of the dirt under the concrete trail!! Sadly, it also dead ends at Powers Blvd, turning from concrete to dirt "single track" trail! They haven't even started any "connection" trail up to the Hwy. 24 and Powers Blvd, RATS! We headed back and stopped at thee Life Perks Coffee House for our sugar free snack and a hot tea! Then headed back to the storage unit!

December 8, We wanted to see if they had finally finished the "construction" along the Cheyenne Blvd/Rd bike lane and wanted to head up to the Sacred Grounds Cafe heading up to North Cheyenne Canyon City Park. LOL, the answer is, "NO", the lower section is cleared out but from 8th street up to 21st street is still a MESS! We rode on the sidewalks as much as we could, then had to "go play with the cars" till we got through the construction and back on the bike path. We got up to the Sacred Grounds Cafe, ate the brown bag lunch and had hot tea's! The day was suppose to sunny and warmer but it started turning quite gray and chilly so wee headed back to downtown, over to Monument Valley Park, then headed to the storage unit, called it a day! 

December 12, Finally got a decent enough day to do our Weekly Food Run. Headed up the Rock Island Trail over to the Walmart Market Place on Union Blvd. With the cargo trailer we packed the bags of food in and then headed home to the apartment, put away the food and household supplies and headed out to McDonald's for a BOGO FREE, double cheeseburger and iced tea! Again, the temps started dropping so we headed straight to the storage unit! 

December 14, been a bit since we headed over to Manitou Springs. It was a nice sunny morning but as we got close to our lunch stop, the Starbucks on Colorado Ave and 31st. street a lot of high clouds started coming in! Bought a large HOT tea to go with our Brown Bag Lunch. The sun came back out so we headed west on the Midland and Creek Walk Trails over to the current "end of the concrete" trail at the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce Building. LOL, again the clouds came back and the chill with them, so again it was time to make our way back to the storage unit, via Midland, and other trails and bike lanes! (Note: No videos due to our internet has been DOWN for several days!) 

December 15, we needed to end our ride over at our local Walgreens Drugs to get meds for Jo before we went home so we decided to ride the "T-Gap" Trail up to its current ending at Ranch Road. It was a VERY SUNNY day, but the WIND was CHILLY!! We headed off the trail on the Flintridge Road bike lane up to the Starbucks on Flintridge and Academy Blvd. The winds were strong so we went and found "INSIDE" seats were, we could still SEE the trikes! Got our HOT green tea and ate the Brown Bag Special! ;) Headed back downhill to the T-Gap and headed north to Ranch Road. Turned around and headed south, headed over to pick up the Rock Island going east up to Academy Blvd, then turned around, wanted to stop at Life Perk's Coffee Shop for a Apple-Cinnamon hot tea to go with our THINK bars but found out they are CLOSED on Sunday's! It wasn't getting any warmer and the wind was stronger so back to the storage unit, tucked in the trikes and headed home!

Well that's the end for now folks, had to take December 16th off to have a Xfinity Tech come to the apartment to fix our internet! He had to replace the Modem, it got fried when the Network was vandalized and was down for 2 days for repairs! Till next time:

It's enough to be "ON YOUR WAY", it's Enough, just to "Cover Ground", It's ENOUGH to be "MOV'IN ON"!! Happy Holidays BJ and Jo :)

December 6, 2024, Playing catch up again, "On with the Show, this is IT"

 

November 23 Riding on the Cottonwood Creek Trail, just getting in a ride, here's a video!

November 26 Just a short ride to see the progress of the Rock Island Trail and Murry Blvd. lighted crosswalk. 

Crosswalk heading West at Murry Blvd and Rock Island Trail

Crosswalk heading West, now with re-aligned crosswalk striping

November 29 Took a ride to get a new and TALLER Christmas Tree, tired of having to put the old 4ft tree on a table, found a affordable 6ft unlighted artificial tree at Walmart. Hooked up the cargo trailer and we headed across town!

December 2 We headed up to Angletech the Backwards way, Midland, Foothills Trails but then were forced to detour up the Mesa Trail over to the Fillmore St. bike lane and then picked up Centennial Blvd Walk/Bike Path. Back to the PP Greenway and headed back to the storage unit, Strange Ride!

December 4  Headed up to Angletech to get the "Brake Swap" done on Jo's trike. Changing from Problem causing MIRRORED disc brakes to 90mm DRUM brakes. Both Kirk and Joshia, worked her trike over and now she's got great brakes!

Well that catches us up, will add the ride on the 5th. next blog, thanks for coming along for the rides, Happy Holidays!

November 22, 2024 A very "strange" ride!

We again, needed to head up to Angletech to set up a service appointment to get the disc brake/drum brake swap done. Well out of habit, I got us over to the T-Gap trail south to the Pikes Peak Greenway and west on the Sinton Trail. Oops, I forgot about the Eliston St/I-25 bridge demolition going on till Nov 25th!! So, we had to detour over the Garden of the Gods Road on Sinton Road. Garden of the Gods Road and I-25 is a real mess of traffic, we had to do a stop and go several times to get from Sinton Rd and head west on GoG Road! Finally got to Chestnut St and crossed over to the other side of the road that has a double wide sidewalk/path heading up to GoG Rd. and Centennial Blvd. Crossed back over to get into Angletech. Appointment set for Dec 4th, 10 AM. 

We headed back to King Soopers Food Store to see if we could afford to purchase a "turkey" for the "Take a Turkey to Work" program but alas, couldn't afford one so we gave them a $10 donation for Care and Share so they could add someone else's donation and buy a turkey for the area needy! LOL, well of course we ran into more Road Work construction on the way there so we stopped at Starbuck's for iced tea and our brown bag lunch! 

Then back tracked to the food store, it was a bit crazy but we finally found a way out to Fillmore St and picked up the South Centennial Extension Bike/Walking Path

 back over to the Pikes Peak Greenway. Picked up the Rock Island Connector & Trail over to the Templeton Gap Road bike lane, heading north over to Nancy Lewis Park for our afternoon snack and then continued on the bike lane to a access path and west on the T-Gap Trail back to the storage unit! It was a strange ride, lot's of not normal "twist and turns" but it was also a nice day to get in a ride! Here's a Relive Video of the ride!

Till next time, Happy Trails and Happy Thanksgiving Season too!! :)