March 29- Heading our way towards April Showers and hopefully May Flowers!

 March 23- Food Run: Didn't have time for a longer ride so we did our weekly Food Run. Headed up Rock Island over to Constitution Ave and Union Ave to go to the Walmart Market Place for food and supplies. The store is getting a total redo so it's a RPITA to find things but we got it done. Rode back to the apartment and put the frozen items in the freezer and then decided to head to the McDonalds on Midland Trail and 31st. Street. Quick BOGO free double cheeseburger and iced tea. From there retraced the route and back to the Storage Unit and the walk home! 

At the apartment to unload and head out to BOGO free lunch!

March 26- We rode up the Pikes Peak Greenway and, on the way, back decided to see if the

Sinton Trail at I-25 and Elliston St. had re-opened and yes, it's usable again so when we have to go to Angletech on April 11 to have a new "inline" E-assist system installed on Jo's trike, we won't have to go the long route over Centennial Blvd!  It was just a nice day to ride, sunny, lite winds, a early spring day to be out and about on the trikes.

A view of Pikes Peak from the patio at Starbucks on Centennial Blvd and Fillmore St.

Nevada Ave Path heading to the University Village of Colorado Center to pick up the Pikes Peak Greenway heading south!

PP Greenway heading up to the Pike View Reservoir 

BJ and his ICE Trike at our storage unit to tuck in the trikes and take the walk home.

March 27- We headed from the storage unit to the Cascade St. bike lane south to get to the

Tejon St bike lane, through the massive construction at Tejon and I-25. Had do a couple of minor detours but finally got over to the Cheyenne Blvd bike lane heading west to 8th. Street. For the last several months they have been doing road construction on Cheyenne Blvd west of 8th Street, we have been forced to use the sidewalk before being able to get back on the road!! The goal was to ride up to the start of North Cheyenne Canyon Park and also stop at the Sacred Grounds Cafe for 2 iced tea's to go with our brown bag lunch! 

After lunch we headed up to the Starsmoor Visitor and Nature Center at the foot of North Cheyenne Canyon. Stopped in and gave a couple of dollars to the donation box! Oh, I forgot about there was NO construction up to Sacred Grounds Cafe but now they are repaving the Cheyenne Road up to the Starsmoor Center but at least they had Flaggers to stop traffic till we could get up the hill!! LOL, maybe the next time we head up that way, the road construction will be finished, and the Bike Lane Lines repainted, it would be great not to have to fight construction! 

The Starsmoor Visitor and Nature Center at the foot of North Cheyenne Canyon Park

A Trail marking sign at the Starsmoor Center, where sever hiking trails start

A babbling brook next to the Starsmoor Center

We stopped at the Good Neighbors Meeting House on the Shooks Run Trail on the way back to the storage unit

March 28- Riding the T-Gap, Austin Bluffs Trails with a "sidewalk" ride to create a loop over to the Rock Island Trail heading west. Leaving the storage unit, we got on the Cascade St. bike lane over to the Templeton Gap Trail and headed east. Rode the T-Gap to Austin Bluffs Parkway and use the Austin Bluffs Trail to Brenner Pl., where it ENDS! Jumped on a sidewalk heading west to American Drive, another sidewalk up to Academy Blvd. Heading south, we rode it to just past Palmer Park and stopped at the Mavrick Convenients Station for Ice Tea and our brown bag lunch. 

Picked up the Rock Island Trail heading west to the RI Connector and the Pikes Peak Greenway. We rode the "westside" section of the PP Greenway to Monument Valley Park and stopped to sit at Stanley Lake for our snack stop. Headed north over the Pedestrian Access Bridge over I-25 to the Mesa Springs Greenway heading north back to the Cascade St bike lane and to the side street that leads to our storage unit! Another really nice, warmish day, sadly coming to an end on Saturday afternoon with rain showers from then through Sunday, RATS!  

Stanley Lake at Monument Valley Park

Rock Island Trail

Mesa Springs Greenway heading north.

Well folks, that's the END. Weekend looks rainy and chillier, might be able to get a ride in on Monday but Tuesday we had medical appointments and Wednesday and Thursday look like MORE RAIN! All the Best and HAPPY TRAIL'S!