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02-10-04, 04:19 AM
Well the three of us did another ride on Sunday. xythen had successfully achieved a few 20 mile rides so it was time to take her on her first 30 miler (31 and some change). We met at my house in Everett and headed up the Valley toward Monroe. This is personally one of my favorite rides since I can do it right out my front door and in 5 minutes you are pedaling through farm land. This was xythen's first long ride on the open road. We had one incident with an SUV when we were getting ready get on a bike trail that parallels Hwy 2 (The Hewitt Ave Trestle). He calmed down rather quickly when he noticed the state patrol cruiser in the other lane. But that was after he went screaming by us. That was the only problem driver of the whole trip.
Coming down the other side of the trestle there was a mattress and box spring that somebody dumped on the trail. After a couple of jokes about nap time we pushed on. The run is fairly flat for most most of the trip. But it is broken up by some rolling hills and a a ton of great scenery. khuon and I took turns acting as sweep and taking point. That gave us a chance to stretch our legs and still keep xythen company.
The weather report was mixed (chance of showers) so the sky was pretty dark and it was on the cool side (mid 40'sF) it did look threatening for a while but we never got hit by any rain. It seemed like no time at all when hit Monroe and after a quick break we decided to head back and stop for lunch in Snohomish (no micros on this run thats still about 10 miles back to Everett). We stopped and had lunch at a Mexican place on the river. The food was good and we all cleaned our plates and put a healthy dent in the chips and salsa. We sat around and talked about world travels (well khuon and xythen my world travels consist of a cross Canada car trip, several visits to Vancouver and Vancouver Island, and a couple of vacations in Mexico), skiing and other stuff. We also planned on doing an organized ride together in March up in the Marysville neighborhood. We saddled up and headed out for the last leg of our journey which was a long flat run along the river back in Everett.
The sun and blue sky began to appear so it made a nice end to our journey. We all got pack to my place and I helped khuon and xythen load up (they carpooled) and we made plans to ride again in a couple of weeks. xythen is planning on buying a new road bike so she is probably going to start kicking our butts in the up coming rides. All in all it was another outstanding way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Of course khuon took some pics so here is the link (xythen has a better agent than I she got more photo ops than I ;) )
http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/gallery/20040208-everett-monroe
P.S. Sam I don't know if you can tell but I lost the hippie look :D
Coming down the other side of the trestle there was a mattress and box spring that somebody dumped on the trail. After a couple of jokes about nap time we pushed on. The run is fairly flat for most most of the trip. But it is broken up by some rolling hills and a a ton of great scenery. khuon and I took turns acting as sweep and taking point. That gave us a chance to stretch our legs and still keep xythen company.
The weather report was mixed (chance of showers) so the sky was pretty dark and it was on the cool side (mid 40'sF) it did look threatening for a while but we never got hit by any rain. It seemed like no time at all when hit Monroe and after a quick break we decided to head back and stop for lunch in Snohomish (no micros on this run thats still about 10 miles back to Everett). We stopped and had lunch at a Mexican place on the river. The food was good and we all cleaned our plates and put a healthy dent in the chips and salsa. We sat around and talked about world travels (well khuon and xythen my world travels consist of a cross Canada car trip, several visits to Vancouver and Vancouver Island, and a couple of vacations in Mexico), skiing and other stuff. We also planned on doing an organized ride together in March up in the Marysville neighborhood. We saddled up and headed out for the last leg of our journey which was a long flat run along the river back in Everett.
The sun and blue sky began to appear so it made a nice end to our journey. We all got pack to my place and I helped khuon and xythen load up (they carpooled) and we made plans to ride again in a couple of weeks. xythen is planning on buying a new road bike so she is probably going to start kicking our butts in the up coming rides. All in all it was another outstanding way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Of course khuon took some pics so here is the link (xythen has a better agent than I she got more photo ops than I ;) )
http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/gallery/20040208-everett-monroe
P.S. Sam I don't know if you can tell but I lost the hippie look :D