Ride to the Labor Day Lift Off

We rode the bicycles to the yearly, Labor Day Lift Off Balloon Fest, here in Colorado Springs, CO. over Labor Day Weekend. We had to leave at 6 AM. in the dark to make the 7 AM. launch time! We arrived and the day broke sunny and a bit windy so it took awhile for the Balloons to get a "ok" to launch but they did and it was quite a site!

Jo and the bikes awaiting the Sunrise!

Just an update!

We've been putting on rides over the last 2 months for our newly founded: Rail Trail Riders of Colorado Springs, CO. casual bicycle riding group! LOL, just forgot to take a camera so no pictures. We still don't have any new members but Me and the Mrs., hopefully we can get at least 2 more couples or singles before the end of the year! We plan on riding the bicycles over to the Labor Day Balloon Lift Off at Memorial Park here in Colorado Springs so maybe a couple of photos from that adventure will be forthcoming! :) The summer season is coming to an end, RATS but there's some good and cooler Fall riding for the next couple of months!

The Templeton Gap Trai Ridel

Our Second ride for the The Rail Trail Riders of Colorado Springs, CO. was held on July 23rd., we started at Nancy Lewis Park, (which is a beautiful local park), and then headed out to ride the Templeton Gap Trail, we rode the trail from Union Blvd. to the Pikes Peak Greenway Trail, our original idea was to turn around and ride back to the park but since it's still just "Jo and I" on the rides, we headed down the PPGWT and headed over to an old fashion ice cream, burger joint, called the Tasty Freeze for some ice cream! BUMMER it wasn't open yet so we instead headed out for lunch and rode to Taco Bell for a yummy combo burrito!! 

LOL, yes I know that's not healthy but that's one of the many reason we RIDE so we can eat a bit of junk food and it won't just go to our waist's! ;) Then we headed home. We can't wait till we get our first new members, but we don't mind as we were going to RIDE anyway! :)

Start of T-Gap Trails