November 2024, heading towards Thanksgiving Day

November 12, We headed up to our dealer, Angletech, on a kinda sloppy day after a 3 day snowstorm! We used the "Back Route" up the South Centennial Blvd bike lane as they have the Sinton Trail closed off at Elliston Street to demolish a old bridge! We went up to order the parts to convert Jo's TRICE T from "mirrored" disc brakes, which have been a real problem keeping them working, to DRUM BRAKES. Parts have to come from England so it will be 2 to 3 weeks before the swap can get done!  

 

November 14, We have been riding East and North a lot so decided it was time to head to the Westside of the Springs and into Manitou Springs. Using the Midland/Creek Walk Trails. It was a really nice sunny, warm day so we headed to the current ending of the Creek Walk Trail at Mayfair Road. Headed back the Mesa Springs Greenway to Monument Valley Park to eat our afternoon Think Bar, (high protein, NO SUGAR, Low Carb), it seems every afternoon the winds pick up with a coolish breeze, time to head for the storage unit and tuck in the trikes!

November 15, today was just a FOOD RUN for weekly food and household supplies. It was the chilly day of the week, after dropping off the food at the apartment we headed over to the Fillmore Street Mc Donald's for a BOGO Big Mac! Gray clouds came in and the breeze got chilly, headed directly to the storage unit!

November 16, We decided to ride out and check the progress on 2 of the 4 new, "Lighted Crosswalks", the city is installing to make it MUCH easier to get across at these "Street/Trail Intersections"! Sadly, the Murry Blvd/Rock Island lighted crossing showed no progress since last visit, Bummer! Decided to head out to the Shook's Run/Unitah Street crossing and was surprised to see a crew working on a Saturday!! Not only was the 2nd street pole up, they actually got the new "concrete" poured and drying for the connection over to pick up the Shook's Run Trail heading south!! Looks like this could be finished and working very soon, Thanks City of Colorado Springs!! :)

November 18, LOL, well sometimes you have a ride that is a total PITA!! We headed south on the Cascade Ave bike lane to America the Beautiful Park. Picked up the Midland Trail over to 8th Street. Had to use the "sidewalk" till the 8th Street bike lane started. Heading south again on the bike lane, ran into road construction, forced out into traffic for a bit then as we got to our turn at Cheyenne Blvd to pick up the bike lane, MORE road construction all the way up to Cheyenne Middle School, we had to Play with Traffic, Arrugh! Finally it cleared out as we headed up the Canyon. Heading for the Sacred Grounds Cafe, arrived to find out it's CLOSED on Mondays! :( Headed up the bike lane to the Starsmoore Center to use the restroom, LOL, it's CLOSED on Monday's!! Lucky for us, a hiker told us of another restroom in the off street parking lot and YEA, it was actually OPEN!! ;) 

Fought the traffic again heading back down the bike lane and road construction, got over to a side street and made our way to the Panera Bread at the Southgate Shopping Center! It was chilly sitting in the shade outside on their patio so we got HOT tea instead of iced tea and split a cinnamon rasin swirl bagel along with our brown bag PB and sugar free jelly sandwich!! That hit the spot, decided to see IF we could get through the Hugh construction project at the I-25 and Nevada Ave/Tejon Street intersection. They are adding new Sidewalk/Trail crossings, luck was on our side! The new concrete path is open heading north on Nevada Ave, (not done on the side heading south, FYI), we headed towards down town over to America the Beautiful Park and finally, the Mesa Springs Greenway to Monument Valley Park. Back up to Cascade Ave bike lane over to the double wide sidewalk along Nevada Ave to Fillmore Street to pick up 4 prescriptions for Jo at the Walgreens Drug Store, then back over to the Cascade Ave bike lane and headed to the storage unit!! 

It was such a mess, didn't shoot a video or even take any photos!! So, I will leave you with the lowly RELIVE video for the ride! Till next time Happy Trails and upcoming Holidays!