Back Home (Well, for 6 Days Anyway)...
Sep. 23rd, 2002 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quasigeostrophyRound-trip Airfare from Indy to Denver: $181
3-Day Mountain Bike Rental: $59
2 Nights at the Ramada Inn - Moab: $176
Feeling the wind rush by while careening over gravel, dirt, and slickrock outside Arches National Park with a best friend for your first time on a mountain bike: Priceless
I am utterly exhausted, but it was a wonderful time. Seeing Arches Natl. Park was one of my Must Before I Die list items. Now, it's on the Must Go Back list. To someone who was virtually raised on a road bike, mountain biking is definitely different - in good ways. I don't know that it will supplant road biking on my list, but it's a great addition. Rode for three of the four days (first ride was actually getting acclimated to the altitude and the bike on trails in Denver, but it counts). Didn't do Hurrah Pass as the friend I was with suggested, but we covered a lot of the highlights of Arches on Saturday and still got quite a workout - and a sunburn. While![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
computerchix was being sun-baked in San Diego, I was dong likewise in the high desert of eastern Utah, though apparently not to the same extreme.
Checking e-mail, and catching up on Live Journal. Going to be a short week... back to the SF Bay area for a week and a half next Monday, and this weekend is shot with a training bike ride both days (while I'm more confident of completing this century ride at the end of October, I'm wishing it would get here already). Looks likecomputerchix will be coming out to CA to be with me for my b-day on Saturday, 10/5, and Sunday 10/6. We're tentatively planning to check out the Schulz museum in Santa Rosa on that Saturday. If anyone has any other suggestions, drop me a line ;-) I'll be doing the 8-5 thing on the weekdays I'm there...
3-Day Mountain Bike Rental: $59
2 Nights at the Ramada Inn - Moab: $176
Feeling the wind rush by while careening over gravel, dirt, and slickrock outside Arches National Park with a best friend for your first time on a mountain bike: Priceless
I am utterly exhausted, but it was a wonderful time. Seeing Arches Natl. Park was one of my Must Before I Die list items. Now, it's on the Must Go Back list. To someone who was virtually raised on a road bike, mountain biking is definitely different - in good ways. I don't know that it will supplant road biking on my list, but it's a great addition. Rode for three of the four days (first ride was actually getting acclimated to the altitude and the bike on trails in Denver, but it counts). Didn't do Hurrah Pass as the friend I was with suggested, but we covered a lot of the highlights of Arches on Saturday and still got quite a workout - and a sunburn. While
computerchix was being sun-baked in San Diego, I was dong likewise in the high desert of eastern Utah, though apparently not to the same extreme.Checking e-mail, and catching up on Live Journal. Going to be a short week... back to the SF Bay area for a week and a half next Monday, and this weekend is shot with a training bike ride both days (while I'm more confident of completing this century ride at the end of October, I'm wishing it would get here already). Looks like
computerchix will be coming out to CA to be with me for my b-day on Saturday, 10/5, and Sunday 10/6. We're tentatively planning to check out the Schulz museum in Santa Rosa on that Saturday. If anyone has any other suggestions, drop me a line ;-) I'll be doing the 8-5 thing on the weekdays I'm there...
