To drained to type it out. 67.2 miles one day, biking with Wendell. I will update this some time Sunday.

So we started out just leaving early Saturday in an attempt to get to a restaurant at our normal destination. I rigged up a camera on my handlebars and set it to take pictures every once and awhile. This was just a test to see how it would work out.

We made it in good time and the food lived up to their reputation. There was supposed to be a storm that would hit us just as we got back into town. It had a different plan. It decided to strike while we were at the restaurant. When the rain had past we toyed with the idea of finishing the trail and going to the next city on it.

Wendell was told by someone the next section of trail was mostly open sky and not much tree cover. There was also no where on the trail to stop and refill/buy water It was a cool day and a little bit humid so we went for it.

This was another trip of animals running in front of our tires. What was unique this trip was that we saw snakes. All of them were garter snakes out warming themselves. We had one slither off the path as we went past. Stopping at a bridge we found another two. After that I nearly ran over a plump adult sized one on the path. I think I stopped about 15 inches from it. It was so cold that it didn't even react to us still I started to try to move it off the path with a pair of sticks.

We also had an incident with a deer. One section of the path that cut through a small hill. It was 4 foot or so on one side and maybe 10 or 12 feet on the other. We ended up spooking a deer there. This all happened in a manor of seconds. When It ran up the side it failed to clear the fence at the top of the cut. From what I saw it belly slammed it. After It freed its legs out of the fence it ran back across the path to the other side where it may have ran into another fence on that side. It cleared it on a second try.

Other animals we saw squirrels, rabbits, an opossum, llamas, cows, and bat.

We get to the city and what the trail passes through is an industrial park. It was composed of large clean quiet buildings and a wide rather flat road. For something called an industrial park it wasn't a bad looking place. After your got past the park a short section of trail leads you into the beautiful Tree park for lack of better term. It was a sidewalk that snaked through the cleared out area of trees. They were all large and there canopies block out the sunlight. The grounds were clean of litter forest or otherwise. It also had a wide shallow stream slowly flowing through it.

When we left this area the ran past the local water treatment plant. Across the road from that was a city part with a non-functional water fountain. This was a problem because we were running sort of daylight and were in the residential section of the city. There were no Minimarts or gas stations near there so we just ended up turning around and heading back.

Yeah I ran out of water on the way back. We made it back to the first town got ice cream and I got fluids in me. Then made our way back to my place. The boke seats we have are not comfortable enough for trips like that.

Last night I poked around on google maps to find a reachable place to refresh ourselves next trip.