Some of you would make your mamas proud! So prepared.

I'm shockingly ..not so. It must come from doing most of our cycling within the city/suburban limits. When we go bike touring..we're still pretty citified even if passing through countryside for 50 kms. as part of the day's trip before hotel/motel.

My parents barely know the amount of cycling that I've done. It's ok. No point causing a heart attack right now.

Instead, dear mother lectures me about the chemical additives in processed foods from China and not to buy some of the questionable stuff...only recently I listened to this lecture in agreement..after all the well-publicized food scares. Mothers, can be right...up to a point..after all.