July 3rd Rides!

[onimity]

Only a commute to report here in terms of rides... but all of this talk about Baseline has made me laugh.

We have a Baseline Rd here too, the 40th parallel.

The other day a guy I was riding with was talking about being asked for directions to this road by a guy in a pick-up, clearly from out of town. The guy pronounced 'Baseline' so that it rhymed with 'Vaseline'...Once they figured out where he wanted to go my buddy's friend gave directions to the guy with the same pronunciation. I don't know if I could have done it with a straight face. The story alone had me in stitches.

Anne

[Crankin]

13.4 hilly miles in beautiful weather. Then I came home and we started working on unloading and placing the 10 tons of rocks we are using to make shrub bed borders with. My arms and back already feel it... tomorrow doing the same route as the 50 mile charity ride I did a few weeks ago for the Acton Lions. Too bad no one will be there with Italian subs when we get back!

PS. There's a Baseline Rd. in Tempe, too. I wonder why so many places in the west have streets with this name. It used to be sort of the southern terminus of the Valley but now, of course, it's not.

[Jiffer]

The guy pronounced 'Baseline' so that it rhymed with 'Vaseline'

That's hilarious because we pronounce it the same way just to be silly sometimes! Or my husband calls it "Base-uh-leen-ay". And we have a Foothill here also, which when my daughter started reading, thought the sign said, "Footh-ill"!

[Fredwina]

Tiegyr - I've done "the Bear" - going up 330 wasn't fun
Jiffer - live between Arrow and Foothill. Arrow's a lot nicer bike wise than foothill. I'm going to T&S's for their TdF party on Saturday. Maybe I'll see you there?
Onimity had to laugh, the local Paper , the Daily Bulletin, ran a story about people mispronoucing street and place names and making Baseline rhyme with Vaseline made it Of course, you should hear my mother attempt "Cucamonga". I tell her to just call the City "Rancho" when she's visiting.
A neighboring City(Upland) had the "H" knocked out of one their Foothill signs for a long time. I always wondered if it was free advertising for a Podiatrist
Robyn - not sure about the other states, but here in CA, it refers to Land surveying. ours is a straight line from Mount San Gorgonio . It alway's fun on clear day in winter to be riding along in shirt sleeves and look and see snow on the top