Janet and Phil's Excellent Biking Adventure

Janet hasn't been on her own bike once this year and it is now 15 August.  So, going "trail" riding on a bike she is completely unfamiliar with sounds like a super idea, right?

For sure!  Also, don't forget that Janet has never been trail riding before.

It started out well enough.  They loaded the bikes into the Volvo and drove the the "trail head". It's important to use all the trail biking lingo a guy can lay his hands on for the big adventure!

Turns out Janet is more suited to the wide open road and even the lingo couldn't save her.   She envisioned wide trails with grassy, Alpine meadows on either side of the trail.  About 5 minutes in, Janet crashed and had to walk the bike out.  They ended up getting separated from each other with no means of communication.  It didn't end well.  The peace and tranquility of the woods was punctuated with many bad words in loud voices!

Landing spot.  The trail was really narrow and covered with bramble on nearly all sides.  When Janet told Bronwyn they had gone to this trail, Bronwyn said "you went THERE!?!"

 Part of the injuries sustained.

The cut eventually closed in, but had a fair size gap at the beginning.

 Janet's left leg looks like it is a survivor of a tour in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In addition to the bike cut, there are numerous scars from when she tripped in a lava field last January that don't appear to be going anywhere.

Phil fared much better.

 

Watty Man and I played at least twice a day for extended periods of time.  It was fun!

Super cool thing about Hood River - dogs on the patio!  Yes!  Hola, Amigos, we are at one out of four visits to Hood River Taqueria.

 Then, bad news!  Watson had to go home.

See you soon, Buddy!

We stayed for a couple more days to explore some of our old haunts.

We spread some of Noodles ashes at her favourite locations.

 This was the first place they stayed in Hood River.  I lived in Camp USA then, but went up to visit.  This was most assuredly one of Rockers and Noodles favourite spots - end of a quiet road, surrounded by cherry and pear orchards.

It's no longer a vacation rental.

This is in the early stages of an orchard.  There was a small horse paddock here and Rockers was afraid to walk by them.

They have many cool bridges in the Hood River area.

This is the "Bridge of the Gods".  There may have been beautiful view from the bridge deck, but Janet had two choices - stare down at the floor of the car or look out the window and throw up.

This is the Lewis and Clark Bridge.

Check out this cute mosaic tile puppy, Lucky!

Watty Man was an all tuckered out puppy dog.