hi tracy! it WAS a gorgeous day! and so fun to meet you!!! i kept telling hubby how nice you were and how fun it was to meet you!!!!! so you liked the apple pie??? how about the dudley bread? i always eat too much of it (have to stop at each stop just to get a slice! whether i need to stop or not! lol!)

hey.... you need any help picking out gadgets.. i'm here to enable! that's me... shopper enabler! i'm such a poseur with all my high tech toys.. but hey... i have fun! and that's what counts! right!?!

the ride... NICE! i like the tour of borrego route better than the borrego to the sea route they do in january! comparing the "62" mile ride to 62 miles ride... the to the sea one has more elevation.. but the tour one is prettier and better roads! for to the sea.. you are out on the main road and the shoulder is narrow... you have a nice descent.. but have to climb it again (although it's not a bad climb)... the roads, once you hit imperial county are HORRIBLE! (even on carbon! ) for the tour (yesterday's ride) you are mostly on bike lanes or backroads with hardly any cars! and the roads were all decent! the "62" (ended up being only 60) was the two shorter ride loops.. so we did the 40 miler then the 22 miler... the 40 mile portion took you out to a point where you turned around.. right at the end of that road there was a down and up... short but 10% grade (according to the road sign!) nice little climb.. (plus you turned around and went back down and back up) like i said.. they were short! the rest of the loop was flat to rolling... it took us into some of the residential areas for borrego and we got to see some GORGEOUS houses and a beautiful golf course! the 22 mile loop was part of the 40... turning at differnt points and without the out and back... it went through the prettiest part with the houses and golf course!

i thought i'd get a "mental block" that i had finished the ride when we got back to the resort at the end of the first loop before doing the 22 portion.. i thought i'd think i was done when i really wasn't (i get that way at home.. once i turn around... or get anywhere near home.... i like to keep heading home vice extending my route... my mental block! lol!) well i do that!..... i was feeling good and had no thoughts of stopping! we even went up the road to the little turn around trying to get it up to 62 a the very end... but by that time the apple pie was calling... so we said to heck with it and just went and had pie without getting a full 62 miles... oh well!

i think the 22 was a perfect ride for tracy's first organized ride with her healing arm! and it sounds like she enjoyed it! next year she'll be more than ready for the "62"! she was gone by the time we went by on the first loop....

R&B bike club always has well stocked rest stops... including porta potties they haul out... i normally ignore anything but the dudley bread! gawd i love that stuff! they had oranges... bananas.. and peanut butter for the bread (i don't "ruin" my bread with it.. but hubby swears by it!)

the pie... i love julian pie.. and having it ala mode is perfection! especially at the end of a nice ride! although i'm sure i ate more than i burned calories!

p.s. i never ended up taking my leg warmers (or arm warmers) off! so i coulda left my other socks on! tee hee!!!!!!