One month til launch...!

On June 19th I'm meeting up with the group I'll be riding with from Everett, WA to Jackson, WY. I'm heading up to Seattle on Friday, June 18th - so, there's just less than a month til lift-off. There's a lot of logistical stuff to manage between now & then - but I find myself caring less about Everything being perfect, and just sort of want to be on my bike. Getting ready that way...

I'm already having a blast discovering a bunch of country roads in the East Bay that connect to bike trails I only sort of paid attention to before. It's really beautiful around Mt Diablo these days... and the Iron Horse Trail rocks, especially the way it connects to canal trails around there. Yay for bikes on BART (and former railroad right-of-ways that have been converted to pedestrian & bike trails).

I've been scolded about having pictures of my bike on here, without me in them, so I am trying to be better about that. But, sorry, not quite yet. This picture is from an outhouse-stop at the top of Morgan Territory Road - and my bike's not even in it! (My battery died after three shots of the hills, oh well.)

I never even heard of Morgan Territory Road before I started looking for long, loopy Sunday rides. It's on the eastern slope of Mt Diablo, between Clayton (which has an excellent old-time city park in its historic center) and Livermore. Really... really pretty, one-lane road, and there's hardly any traffic at all. Horses, grass, birds & flowers, mostly... and a few people on bikes.