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Cathy i lived in Milwaukee for 20+ years, born and raised there. i hated the weather! the heat and humidity made me so miserable i up and left when i finished college and moved to Washington. it was a good choice for me and i am happy here. it gets too warm here occasionally but no...

Carolyn, i live where I live because it does not usually get hot here. or briefly if it does. I moved here when I was in my eary 20's because i hated heat and humicity. i dont tolerate hot temps well and never did. i overheat like crazy and dont sweat. I refuse to vacation anywhere hot...

Carolyn, I'm a heat wimp. i start having issues as it gets close to 80 degrees. totally weather driven! but politics has been a factor too. ive been thru Dallas/Fort Worth but thats a long time ago. we rode the trail this morning. it was lovely. hardly anyone there. sunny mild lots...

We did a park walk this morning, 1 hr 20 minutes. way busier than a week ago although not many walking. still, we have to skirt around the campground so lots of barking dogs, screaming kids and smoke and generators. lots of birds in the mostly quiet rest of the park. gotta say ive...

Happy travels Cathy . we are feeling better abut ur travel decision. areas are getting winter travel warnings with snow and temps in teens and 20's. not that awful but does not fit with what our plans were for. hopefully a week will make a difference. today did a 35 minute spin and...

intended to ride something this morning during the "dry" morning time, but it never got dry. seriously raining. did a yard walk later this afternoon when the rain stopped. Dh and i had planned to travel to MT this weekend but the forecast for beginning of next week is not good. so...

Carolyn & judy, they never allowed motorized recreation. this new generation of "electric" bikers seem to think their bikes are different . it has always been non motorized. there are a couple people who zoom thru on motorcycles but they must live near by and are hard to catch. the...

we mountain biked this morning. 2 hours. This is a workout. the company that owns the tree farm may be edging away from how much access the public can have. Much due to people abusing the privilege. unfortunately it seems more likely bikers who try to ride thru places where active...

living near lots of water, we have lots of different ducks. mergansers spend most of their time on fresh water and nest along lakes and streams. they have big broods of ducklings. 13-17 and move downstream and join up with other merg moms. there are big floats of young ducks all together...

Rode the trail today for about an hour and a half. at the turn around spot at the bridge over the river, i spotted a seal first of all, a long way from salt water. like 15-20 miles? and also a large flock of common mergansers ( about 30) along the shore. they nest along fresh water...

It is good to be a little nervous on roads. cant be too timid. have been rushed by dogs a number of times. the most dangerous part is losing control and falling or riding off into path of a car. When i grew up there was no such thing as bike paths. I ve been riding a bike since I...

Judy we put a liner of bubble foam inside the bottle cage so the bear spray doesn't rattle constantly. I keep a can on my road bike and my mt bike. where we mt bike we have run into unleashed dogs. lots of people horseback ride and their dogs are always loose. weve never had a problem...

Carolyn what a wonderful legacy your daughter left. USAID was a wonderful program that benefitted so many. you must be incredibly proud of what she accomplished. diane sue, yes I think people enjoy scaring bicyclists. they probably think they are "great" drivers because they can pass...

Cathy we are pretty particular about where and when we ride roads these days. people are basically jerks. they always have been. they are less polite than ever. we ride early, usually sunday morning, and only a few select rides. there are only a few roads we are on briefly that have...

Good morning Carolyn. thanks for getting things going. hugs to you. we are having beautiful warm sunny weather so we did a road ride we haven't done in 2 years. last year DH didn't feel his knee would hold up to 25 miles. we did it this morning. and with a headwind to boot. how can...

I mostly took the day off today. did groceries, pet food shopping, some veggie planting and weeding. tomorrow we will do a longer road bike ride that we do every year except last year for the first time we missed it somehow. Dh's knee got injured and i think there was some road...

we did another mt bike this morning. first drove to the great big road washout to see if it was possible to get around and if we actually wanted to do that. it is HUGE, a giant gaping hole. . supposedly about 130 feet across and 70 feet deep. the stream goes a long way back up the hill...

we rode our regular trail this morning, and surprise, it was being partly resurfaced. it is asphalt but tree roots over time crack the asphalt after raising it into long ridges. got much worse last year, so bad that they sawed off the tops of some ridges so at least it was flat. this...

Carolyn please take as much time as you need off of posting. i am so sorry about this awful turn of events. we did a tough mt bike on monday. a new one that turned out to just go uphill. . it was a long tough climb and too much debris on the road to race back down. a...

OMG Carolyn... i am so sorry. what a terrible terrible thing.