April 2026-Food Run-Hot Dog-COLD Winds!!

 4/23-Food Run, Hot Dog-Cold Winds- It was time again to head to the Walmart Market for a Food Run. Hooked up the cargo trailer and got on the Rock Island Trail over to Union Blvd, down the little used doublewide sidewalk into the Walmart Market Parking Lot. Did the shopping, loaded the cargo trailer and headed back to the apartment but wow, the wind was really chilly! 

Thought about just calling it a day but we decided to head over to the Tasty Freeze Drive Inn for a iced tea and a grilled hot dog and bun!! Good stuff, the cold wind got calmer, so we decided to put on a few more miles, heading south on Shooks Run and get in a bit more ride for the day! Through America the Beautiful Park and then the Mesa Springs Greenway to Fontanero St. and back on the Pikes Peak Greenway, over the Popcycle Bridge and back to the apartment. Even with the cold winds we still enjoyed the ride, sometimes errands can be FUN! 

We had hoped to ride the "Motorless Morning" at the Garden of the Gods Park on Sunday the 26th. but the weather sucked!! Foggy, cold, gray and windy so we bailed and did a walk in the late afternoon during a break in the storm clouds! HAPPY TRAILS. 

April 2026, more rides with better weather

 Still kinda crazy with personal stuff and a bit of very WINDY weather here and there but we have been able to do a few rides!

4/19- Errand Ride and a whole lot more- We ordered some helmet visors for our SENA R1 intercom helmets from Amazon. As our apartment complex outer doors are locked, it's hard to get a Amazon/UPS, etc. delivery. We use an Amazon Box at a close 7-11 store. Sadly, that box was totally full, so we got directed to a 7-11 on Uintah St. We headed out for a ride before getting to the 7-11 and found we chose the WRONG 7-11 store; we had to go up to the Uintah and 19th. Street 7-11 Amazon Box.

Headed up on the Uintah Street bike lane over two steep hills and found the proper box, since it was a Sunday and late afternoon, we thought we'd just hang around till 3 PM. At 3:15 we headed back down the bike lane to the Mesa Springs Greenway and home, RATS

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4/20-Errand Ride-Part TWO-The Music Video- Finally got the ID numbers from Amazon via phone and again we headed up to the Amazon Box at the Uintah St. & 19th. St. 7-11 store! The box is outside and you punch a number into a screen BUT, the sun is so bright you can't SEE the screen information!!! It took us several times to get it right but finally door 2 opened and we got our new visors!!  From there we headed down 19th. St. to Pikes Peak Ave., rode the street to a stoplight and Midland Trail access. Rode west, on the Midland to access the Colorado Ave bike lane, east and stopped into a Sonic Drive Inn for an All-American Dog and iced tea.

After lunch, we headed back to the Midland Trail and headed east into America the Beautiful Park and then headed to Shooks Run Trail and over to Cascade Ave for a late afternoon iced tea and snack at the building 3 Coffee House. It was getting really warm so we headed back to the apartment!

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4/22- We meet again, Creekside Coffee House on the Cottonwood Creek Trail-Another beautiful morning, headed north on the Pikes Peak Greenway to the Cottonwood Creek Trail junction. Turing northeast, on the CCT and headed up to the Creekside Coffee House for, well, what else, iced tea and the brown bag lunch on the patio! A bit breezy but abundant sunshine, headed again up the CCT all the way to the current detour due to water system construction on the trail. Turned around and headed back down the CCT to the Vincent Frontage Road-Nevada Ave Path to the "Cracked Trail" and the underpass into the University Village Colorado Center and Panera bread for late afternoon iced tea and snack. Back to the Pikes Peak Greenway heading south and home.

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All caught up for April so far, IF it's not pouring rain on Sunday, April 26, we will be riding the "MOTORLESS MORNING" at the Garden of the Gods Park! 5 AM to 12 NOON, NO CARS allowed thru the park so it's a FUN ride with lots of other bike, trike rides, skaters, skateboarders, walkers, etc. Till we come together again, my fine friends, HAPPY TRAILS!

Just a bit more of April 2026

 

4/9- Food Run and a bit of a Wet Ride home

We had planned on doing a Food run and then adding a lunch ride but after we got the cargo trailer and panniers loaded up, it started to sprinkle! RATS, we just got back on the Rock Island Trail and headed for home. It never rained hard, but it was wet all the same so we bailed on the lunch Ride! 

4/12- No particular place to RIDE and the call of CHEAP Grilled Cheese

Due to it being "National Grilled Cheese" Day, we headed out to Panera Bread for a $2 off a Grilled Cheese Sandwich! It was such a nice day that we by passed the short cut to Panera Bread and headed for the Cottonwood Creek Trail to do the Vincent Street Loop and then the Nevada Ave Path, the Cracked Trail and come in the back way to the cafe. YUM, excellent grilled cheese and sides, plus a nice large, iced tea!  From there we just wandered here and there via different routes enjoying the early Spring weather for a change! 

4/13- A Ride for the Enjoyment of it!

Wow, a rare, nice day for two days in a row in early Spring in So. Colorado is kinda rare so again we headed out! First the PPGW to Sinton Trail over to the Foothills Trail. At the Garden of the Gods Park, we took a chance and took a trail into the park a bit that in the summer months has SO MANY tourist's that there is NO WAY, you can ride it! Being early Spring, and a Monday it was almost empty, so we decided to ride it and do both a full video and a video-short (just the trail) for our YouTube Channel-"Out and About on the Recumbents". Stopped at Starbucks for the Brown Bag Special and Iced Tea lunch! 

More of the, point the wheels and head type riding that we really enjoy! It's great to have a destination but it's more fun to make your way as you GO! Again sunny, warm and lite winds making the kinda day, you just got to ride. Rode the Pikes Peak Greenway back to the Apartment and tucked in the trikes. Tuesday-Tia-Chi, 

Weds. Out to lunch with Jo's brother Jim on his 65th. Birthday at the Airplane Restaurant. Friday, the weather guessers are saying COLD and LITE SNOW so we will see and hope they are wrong! 

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Till we come together Next Time my Fine Friends, HAPPY TRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!