Bike Ride

Hello,

Today I said, “I’m going to take a bike ride even if you do not want to.”

“I would go after lunch,” Leroy said, “I just want to do some work on this window from the attic that also has a hole.”

I washed three loads of clothes and hung them out even got most of them back in before we left on an exploratory bike ride.

We were looking for the Sac and Fox trail that goes through the Indian Creek Nature Center. We have been there before, but only by car. It seemed like a nice time to be out wandering around because there was an important football game that would be occupying many people and we might have the roads more to ourselves.

It took some serious map study to figure out the way to go. We decided on the south approach as the streets to the north look as if there might be a lot of traffic on them. We had a great ride to Otis road that had a trail connection on it. At the fishery we even rode around the lake for 1.8 miles on a nice paved trail.

Then it was back to the road where we seemed to ride and ride without seeing anything that looked like a trail entrance. Finally we stopped, dug out the map, and did more careful study before a car drove up. This generous woman driver stopped and was able to tell us that the road we were on would take us right to the Nature Center even though she did not know about the trail. So ten miles from home we finally reached the spot. Another couple was there with their bikes and their dog. They assured us that we would want to go back the way we came to get back to our house. They knew where the trail was and how to get on it. After we got back to the beginning I could see why we did not find it.

We were both quite tired after this little ride of about 19 miles. I still feel tired and we got home three hours ago. I can tell that I have not been on the bike for a few days and then to go this far and climb some more serious hills was something.

Paula