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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 2026- Showers making more flowers but appointments making LESS rides! :(

Well, we have been getting a lot of afternoon lite rain showers as April has come to So. Colorado! The flowers are booming but sadly, our rides have been less due to it's our 6-month assessment time with Rocky Mountain PACE senior care so we have had constant medical appointments, RATS. Our only ride in April so far, has been on Saturday April 4th.

4/4/2026-Pikes Peak Region Recumbent Network, (PPRRN) Meet & Eat ride to Tasty Freeze Diner and their season opening

As the "administrator" for the PPRRN Facebook Group, I try to set up a once-a-month Meet & Eat Ride. The rains dried up for Sat. the 4th., at the same time it was the Season Opening for the 50's style Tasty Freeze Drive Inn. With a "Meet & Eat", you pick a restaurant, Diner, Coffee House, etc. and let the members know a "Meet Time". This way they can ride to the Meet point at their pace and choose the route they prefer to get there! 

Jo and I set up a secondary meeting place to let folks, RIDE IN with us from the Julie Penrose Fountain in America the Beautiful Park in downtown Colorado Springs at 11:10. We only had one other couple show up, Mark and Diane on their AZUB bike and trike. The four of us headed out the Pikes Peak Greenway to the Rock Island and the Shooks Run Trail over to the Diner. Got our food, they had ice cream and we had a good gab session and then headed out in different directions. A very enjoyable ride with great folks and good food too! 

 From there, we headed south on Shooks Run Trail, then Midland Trail and Chaurrs Trail, (very short) over to the Walnut St. bike lane, then the Mesa Springs Greenway, over the Ped Bridge to Monument Valley Park for a restroom break. Back over the Ped Bridge and the Mesa Springs Greenway to the Pikes Peak Greenway and finally home. Good weather, great folks and a fun day for a RIDE! 

                                            

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Yes, not much riding so far, hopefully now that the medical assessments are over, the afternoon rains with mellow and we can get "Out and About on the Recumbents! Till we come together again, my fine friends, HAPPY TRAILS!