Cholla-Dreamy Draw Loop
Another fairly common bike loop of mine: Head east on Peoria into the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. Realize I had forgot my water. (Not a normal […]
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Mega Church Loop
Listed as “road biking” as it was mostly canal, streets and bike paths, even though I ride a mountain bike. Down to Crack Whore Corner […]
Bike back from Trailhead Bike Cafe
The wind that felt so good when I was walking, sucked when I was biking it home. Sweating wrists dousing laptop as I type. It’s […]
Walk to Trailhead Bike Cafe
Car’d flat tire bike to shop yesterday. It was a necessity. Today, I could either car to pick it up, or I could hoof it, […]
A.T.: Crampton Gap to Turner’s Gap
Visiting 3-year old grandaughter for Easter, for second year in a row. Wanted to do another Maryland segment on the Appalachian Trail. Maryland is only […]
Valley Forge
Terrain dictates battles. You can’t understand the battle unless you understand the terrain. And you can’t understand the terrain from the comfort of your car. […]
National Mall
The weather went from chilly, but warming, on Saturday, to chilly all day on Sunday, to cold & snowy on Monday — which was, of […]
National Zoo
Our second full day in DC, we planned on visiting the National Zoo with our younger son and his family. We took the 32 bus […]
Georgetown Loop
M Street NW and Wisconsin Avenue NW are the main streets in Georgetown, and their intersection is ground zero for this hike. Both are extremely […]
Alamo Lake BM Loop
Time constraints prevented me from hiking the benchmarks out to (gravel) Alamo Rd a few weeks ago. In reviewing the topo, I noticed there was […]