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Here's some pics from a 24 mile ride near our home today. First country ride on my new bike. First are my BeeLady socks; then some "rollers" which I call hills before i make it over them and I'm feeling whinny, and then hill looking down on our two barns (trees are in way of seeing our small country home).
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Wow Lauren - that is not at all what I imagined Texas would look like ( I think I have been watching too many old movies).
What a lovely area to ride in.:)
excellent pics everyone wow! I want to go to Alaska. :D
Great photos Lauren. I would like to live is a very sparcly populated area. Love you socks!
Thanks. I enjoy riding out here much more than in town. I'd love to start a cycling bed and breakfast out here -- except you fix your own breakfast, do your own laundry and you stay for free! In other words, I'd love to share this place with other cyclists and enjoy some company, but actually having a B & B sounds like real work to me.
Okay, here are a few from my area....
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...utepics018.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...utepics019.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...utepics011.jpg
These are all in the hilly area where I am attempting to make my legs stronger... not working yet though :rolleyes:
These are from the 50-mile loop around the northern half of Lake Washington. The first is looking at Mt. Rainier from a park on Lake Washington, and the second is looking back at Mercer Island over the I-90 Bridge (same bridge that the Seattle Danskin tri people ride across). It's a gorgeous ride.
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WOW - Salsa you have FALL. I miss fall. Here we have 3 colors, green, tan and dead.
Those pics are beautiful. I'm thinking I want to go to Washington.
That does it: my husband and I have to find assignments on the west coast and relocate.
http://www.tandemhearts.com/Mount-Diablo/01.jpg
This is at 1,000 feet on the North Gate Rd., Mount Diablo. It's a 9% grade here. :p
V.
Wow, Veronica, that tree has such a creepy Halloweeny look, to go along with the scary 9% grade, I guess. :eek:
I definitely live in the wrong part of the country. There is nothing scenic-maybe if i drive to WV? Where I ride there is; concrete, buildings, asphalt, concrete, smog....I need to move.
OK - lake zurich round.
start in Zurich....
http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/fdebar...ges/3Stadt.jpg
along the right hand shore... (up in the hills is nice too)
http://www.flugschule-zueri.ch/Galer...20Zuerisee.JPG
cross the dam...
http://k43.pbase.com/v3/21/471621/1/...damm09707b.jpg
now if you feel strong, you go up Etzel. A real killer at over 10% with one 17% grade mixed in. I once broke down crying up there, but finished after eating something.
if not, leisurely back up the lake with 3 rollers interspersed.
http://www.freienbach.ch/Portrait/Ge...zel-Plakat.jpg
the rest of the route is pictorialized here:http://www.dominikscheder.org/2005-1...uerisee-1.html
you know this thread is good and bad. good because i love all the pictures, bad because now i want to travel even more!
http://tandemhearts.com/coppermine/a...006/sunset.jpg
This is from the top of Mount Hamiliton.
V.