Originally Posted by
Garfield Cat
Maybe time to get a new bike, a different bike that lets you go off road, a gravel bike. Explain to Wife that it will be for the trails instead of the roads. But still get two wheelsets.
Then the two of you visit all 58 counties of California on that new bike stored in the back of the SUV. A combination of biking, hiking, and visiting. Something like Huell Howser.
Add: when 'wife' be along, the male mate is much less likely to get cut-off, sideswiped, etc. by a car. Because the 'wife' (female) being a lure to (mindset of) the male car-drivers. I say this in a way of non-tactic. Only meaning it that human males behave this way.