December 2023, A bit of reprieve from the snow and cold

 The snow and cold has let up for a few days, we've been able to get in a couple of rides! 

Dec. 17. Errand and Lunch ride, a mixed trails ride and a brown bag lunch on a sunny day!

 Dec. 19. A ride to the Cottonwood Regional Park using the Pikes Peak Greenway and the Cottonwood Creek Trail. Still quite a bit of snow and ice on the Cottonwood Creek Trail, sunny but breezy and not quite as warm. 

Dec. 20, Today will be just a "FOOD RIDE", have to hook up the cargo trailer and get supplies and food for Christmas and Christmas Eve! Sadly, with the "shorter days" of winter not much TIME for a ride afterwards today but Thursday is looking decent, a bit chillier before the cold temps on Friday and possible lite snow might make a return for late for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and beyond! 

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, Peaceful Ramadan to all!! December is a very busy month of celebration for ALL of us! 

 

December 2023, Sadly the SNOW has returned! :(

 Have to say, December has been a bit of a bummer as far as riding goes! We've had a pattern off snow, 2 days to melt, a couple of days that are sloppy but rideable and then more SNOW! We've been taking a lot more WALKS this month and even then have gotten caught in the snow more times this year than we can ever remember. Our rides have been short, errand rides, getting food on the best of the days but that takes a lot of time, packing up, shopping, unloading and with the daylight not lasting long, not much time left for a real RIDE! 

LOL, infact today is SLOOPY on the roads and trails and since we live in a apartment, we don't have a area to wash the crud off the trikes, Sunday, one of the warmer days this week, of course we have to go get FOOD so again not any real rides. Oh well, that's life when you can't afford a condo in FL. for the winter months! ;) So for now, we wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a awesome New Years!! All the best in 2024! BJ and Jo

The last few rides of November!

Well November has come to an end, all in all, it's been a good month to ride in 2023! So, let's wrap this month up. 

11-22 Headed towards downtown to pick up the Midland Trail over to 31st Street, had our brown bag lunch and iced tea. Decided to head up the 31st Street bike lane over to the Foothills Trail. on the way, Jo got a shot of me creeping up the hills, LOL! Warm, sunny a very enjoyable ride!

 Then the COLD and snowy weather hit so for a few days, we had to use the indoor recumbent exercise bike, bummer! 

11-28

Had a few things going on so we stayed a bit closer to home, we rode what we call the Vincent Frontage Road Loop. It was a breezy and chilly day but sunny and still very rideable. After we stopped at Panera Bread for our brown bag lunch and iced tea, Jo wanted to get a photo of a local rock formation in Ute Valley Park so we headed up the back way using the detour trail over to the Nevada Ave Bike Lane, then the Vincent Frontage Road Trail over to the Cottonwood Creek Trail to get to the Pikes Peak Greenway. 

11-29

Since we'd been north and east a lot so we headed South on the Weber St. bike lane over to America the Beautiful Park to pick up the Midland Trail into Manitou Springs. Another sunny but slightly chilly day for the last ride in November! We jumped off at 31st. St. to go to Starbuck's for our brown bag lunch and iced tea. Then back on the Midland/Creekwalk trail to Schyvier Park in Manitou. Headed back down the trail heading east, picked up the Mesa Springs Greenway, over to Monument Valley Park. Stopped at the Pickel Ball Court Bleachers, ate our afternoon snack, then headed up the BIG HILL to pick up the Cascade St. bike lane back to the storage unit. Tucked away the trikes and walked the 1.2 miles home as the sun was setting!