Ok, spent last night at the house, keeping en eye on things, halloween and all. No problems, other than super heavy traffic when we went out to get dinner – almost didn’t make it back home! Streets in the neighborhood closed because some folks put up really cool displays, and the others can’t be bothered to walk past, they have to drive through. Really? Take some more candy, lardass!

Lunch was at the Holy Grail Pub, in far North Plano. Pretty good food, and ok Stouts.

Went to get the trailer – no keys for the locks on the keyring! Oh, joy. Back home we go, empty-hitched. At home – no keys. Get house keys out to lock the front door, on the way to Home Depot to get a battery for my grinder (to grind off the locks). What do I spy on my key ring? THE KEYS TO THE LOCKS!!!! I KNEW I’d put them somewhere safe!

Second trip went MUCH better, as we returned home with trailer in tow. Put it next to the house, on the street for now. Gotta clean out the side yard, where it shall soon reside.

Tomorrow, the trip officially ends, as we park the trailer in its slot. Sniffle, sniffle.

Ok. The Bear got another ride in, three 3-mile laps. I’m still in serious pain. Last couple of days it’s been my left leg. Back is pretty ok, for the most part … usually.

Another trip back home, where we’ll spend the night, first time in almost six months! Not bringing the pop-up for halloween, though. We’ll get that tomorrow. Why take a chance?

Another take-stuff-to-the-house day.

Hang out at the trailer day, and get stuff organized to take more back.

Ok, today we go check out the house, see if it’s still standing!

Everything’s fine. Dropped off a bunch of stuff from the trailer. We’ll be doing that all week.

Got new tags for the pop-up, so we can play switcher later in the week.

The Bear did a lap on the 8-mile trail, otherwise, we just hung around packing things up.

Gonna do a short tandem ride today. The trail is quite twisty, and it was a challenge. Unfortunately, almost ran into a bush, and in stopping, I re-injured my left wrist. Pretty badly. Hurts like hell now. No more bike for me for a while.

Met some really cool folks from New Zealand (they were our RV neighbors), and hope to stay in touch with them. Looks like fun times ahead!

Today we ride! Yeah, my hip is killing me, but the hand is much better, so we’re gonna give it a go. A nice, flat, easy trail to tandem on. Off to the Campbell Mesa Trail Loops we go! This is a map of that trail system:

First, we did the loop to the left, which is the Continental Loop, and we rode it counterclockwise. Don’t know why, we just did. Fairly flat, a couple of rocky sections, but it went well. Nice, boring ride – no crashes! Next, we rode, again counterclockwise, the bottom loop, which is  the Walnut Meadows Loop, then it ends where the actual Campbell Mesa Loop Trail continues, and we took that on back to the trailhead. Only about ten miles, all fairly flat, only two or three spots where we ran out of steam on the rocky sections of climbs and had to get off for a bit, but all very rideable. Good ride, and good workout. It’s tough, wrestling a tandem in the dirt!

So, after the ride – Satchmo’s! Decent Cajun food, though the portions were a bit small, but we need to diet anyway …

After that, off to Sedona. Hear a lot about it, so we had to go see it, and maybe do a ride. Well, the scenery going there is gorgeous, as is everything around Sedona … but, the town itself? UGH! Reminded me of West Yellowstone, or Jackson Hole, there were so many damned tourists there! Can’t stand that. When we come back, we’ll stay in Flagstaff, and drive to Sedona for every ride. Never did ride, it was getting late and we were pretty beat, so we just went home, got some movies at Best Buy, some groceries at Safeway, and filled up the truck. Eat a salad, watch some Arrow, Season Two, and off to bed! Traveling again tomorrow!

Ride day! off to St. George today – a MUCH bigger town, so we’ll see how that goes.

I hate addresses in Utah. The bike shop yesterday was at the corner of East 100 South Street and South 100 East Street. Try that on your GPS. Hell, it’s confusing just standing there!

Anyway, first stop today was a bike shop on West 100 South Street in St. George. More confusion. Red Rock Cycles, nice folks, with a cool bike sculpture out front:

Got directions, food and gear, and we’re good to go. We’re going to try the Prospector Trail on the tandem.