Well, once again I wasted untold hours posting this inane blog. In for a penny, in for a pound. So here goes with the pictures of 2019. With one, regrettably from a few years ago.
I finally made it to the Kenwood neighborhood in Bethesda. Cherry blossoms are one of the best things about DC in the spring.The bike valet at Nationals Park is the best. My bikes spent a lot of time here this yearNothing says bike touring fun quite like two weeks of thunderstorms.Springfield, Illinois just around the corner from the grave of the Corn Dog KingMark, Corey, and me taking shelter from a storm in a church in KansasKansas was an ordeal. Little did we know that the Rockies would be brutal. The sign was pretty neat though.Electrically equipped apartments in Pueblo, COFlooding in western Missouri and eastern Kansas on the way westPart of a farm building that was obliterated by a tornado near Golden City, Missouri. Three people died here.I rode to the top of this beast. The ride down was epic.Indomitable French sisters in Boulder, UtahRocks out westStupidest sign of the yearMore rocks near Bryce CanyonHoodoos in the Amphitheater at Bryce CanyonThe Mule poses next to the Cedar Break National Monument snow bank in late JuneSurvival indeedGio and Christina from Italy in Eureka, NevadaI thought these climbs would never endDownhill through California wineriesSalt flats in NevadaMorning view from my motel room – Caples Lake, California in the SierrasHiking Sugarloaf, MarylandLotus blossoms at the Anacostia Botanical GardensApollo 50 on the National MallThe Mule comes homeThey won the whole damned thing. Unreal.Tired? Not me. Emilia at the Great Pumpkin RideAutumn in Fort Hunt Park near home
A stellar human being killed by an out-of-control driver. Still hard to believe Miss you Dave.
Fantastic post. Thank you for sharing these moments; joyful, challenging, inspiring, humorous, poignant, sad…a full range of emotions, in pictures.
Thanks.
Epic year sir
Thank you.