This year Derek and I have collected billions of memories and they just keep coming this holiday season. I was able to spend my niece’s 8th birthday with her, and Christmas with family. We made four kinds of homemade tamales with my mom for a Christmas Eve celebration. Darnit, I don’t have a picture but …
Month: December 2019
Looking back through pictures, we realized we never posted from out last days in San Diego. While staying with Derek’s mom, we took another day to ride around the area and check out the views. We took our gravel bikes again and did a big loop that clocked in at 38 miles with 3600′ of …
Tourists in Our Old Town Before Bend, Derek and I lived in San Diego and now we’re back as tourists. We took an afternoon to go down to La Jolla cove and walk along the beach and up through the town. Sixteen years later, the area largely looks the same. The sun, the surf, the …
Rancho La Costa Preserve We are back in Carlsbad, CA visiting family and friends. After an almost 7 hour drive the day before, we needed to stretch our riding legs. Not far from Derek’s mom’s house are the trails at La Costa Preserve. Riding almost every way up and down, we put together 14 miles …
Box Canyon and Madera Canyon was a superb mostly gravel ride out by Sonoita, AZ outside Tucson. This out and back ride was 33 miles with 3842′ of climbing. Our ride began on dirt as we descended into Box Canyon. The recent rains brought water to the canyon and we could hear and see flow …
Las Colinas – Arizona Trail Today we were back on the Arizona Trail riding 26 miles with 1600′ of climbing. This was an out and back from the Gabe Zimmerman trailhead heading towards Sonoita. We saw all of one person today and were happy to wind around the desert, up over and around the foothills. …
We rode the Pistol Hill section of the Arizona Trail a couple weeks ago and did a blog post here. There are more sections in the area and Bellota did not disappoint. The ride was a 22 mile out and back with 2300′ of climbing. The Bellota section of the AZT is somewhat inconvenient to …