Enough Work On the Roads, Let’s Ride

Friday September 30, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Ride in the hills type day

Barry said he’s worked enough, let’s go for a ride today, so I agreed and we took off up into the hills.

Slight mishap, ouch

We rode around quite a bit and it was all going good, when we were taking a shortcut and we ran into another downed tree. I had to back up and when I tried to turn around on the hill, my bike fell over on me. It wasn’t a hard fall, but my leg was stuck under the bike. I worked a bit and got that out and Barry came over to help me get the bike back up.

A bit of blood

I made it back to the road and saw some blood on the back of my hand. I fell on some dried out tree branches and they got me a bit.

A bit of blood, I had to soak up in my hankie, oh well.

Exploring

We took off and rode all around the hills going over most every road and Barry says,  let’s see if we can get down this one. We made it and ended up on this paved road. Barry’s looking at his map to figure out just exactly where we were.

Resting spot

We were getting pretty tired out so we headed up the hill to our resting spot at the top of the hill, with this view south.

Barry used to be a surveyor so he’ s always looking at his maps.

Oil puddles

We had a good rest there. When I went to get back on the bike I noticed some oil puddles below the bike. I checked the oil and it was plenty full. I couldn’t figure out where the oil came from but likely had something to do with my crash earlier. I’ll have to keep an eye on that for awhile to make sure nothing is broken. As it was, the leak oiled up my chain nicely.

Checking the bike’s oil level.

More riding

Barry got all suited up and we were off for some more riding going over to another neighbor’s until we got tired out enough and headed on home.

Barry took off for home and I had a good nap.

Van prep

I didn’t get as much van prep done today as I’d planned as I was tired out, but there’s not too much to do to get it done. I did get all my water jugs filled up and loaded up. I have one more day to get it all loaded up and ready to go.

Nice day.