here's how my urban ride went tonight. I met my friend in front of where she works. We rode off past the area, then the courthouse, and onto a piece on uncevleoped old RR property that she appropriately calls "end of the world". We get in quite a few miles dodgine old rr ballast, over rr trestles, homeless camps, piles of cement blocks and broken glass and then along the river. Back into downtown, where we go through the park and into town two blocks. We go to the corner where my hubby's office is, two stories up, and wave at him, call him on the cell phone.

Then in the park, it's our little play ground. There are all sorts of little and big ledges to ride off of, drained ponds with rocks and so on. We put pads on. Some lady says, my you look serious and my reply is "we are weenie old ladies that don't want to get hurt". We mess around some more, and have some good laughs at how niether of us can do wheelie drops, which really limits what we can ride off of. The down and around the bike path, over a few different bridges, back through the park until it was time to go.

Irulan