This was cool today - on my last mile on the way home, I was kind of in "the zone" just pedalling along, when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. It was a coyote in the ditch, just standing there, staring at me (he must have heard my squeaky bike... must oil it up!). And as I pedalled by and said "hi, coyote!" he started trotting along beside me in the ditch! Very cool. Then I was going SO FAST (haha!), or more like, he was just trotting along, I pulled away.

THEN, just after that, I see a smaller but really long black animal on the hwy, and as it saw me come close, it sped up and was gone in a flash. It was black, furry with a white tip on it's tail. I'm trying to figure out what the heck it was. I'm thinking a marten or something. Oh well, at least I didn't see the bear I saw last week while driving in that exact same area!!!