Memorial Weekend Bike Ride

Bike Ride number two was on Memorial Day weekend. What started out as a 12 mile ride turned into a 15 mile ride, but who's counting. We rode around Otay Lake and found a perfect spot for a future picnic or hiking adventure - Lower Otay Park Pavillon. The scenery around the lake was truly beautiful and there was very little traffic. In fact, much of the ride was on a bike path, so it would be a perfect place to ride with children or people that are not comfortable in traffic. On the ride home we saw a rather large sized coyote in close proximity to Salt Creek Elementary school. Good thing that school was not in session.

The only thing missing from this ride was a good hydration system. Indeed both of us were sharing one plastic water bottle, which was not nearly enough. So after the ride we headed down to our local bike shop to take advantage of the holiday weekend sale pricing. I fixed myself up with a Camelbak Dream. It is a water supply and backpack in one ... just what I needed. Also, because it is refillable I felt like I was doing the "green thing" or environmentally correct thing. I also bought some other cycling accessories that were too cheap to resist.

Ride number 2-1/2 came the next day when son #2 decided to try on Dad's new cycling attire. Once decked out with the gear he wanted to ride so off we went again with the wee one in tow. This time we drove up to the the lake and cycled around it. Turned out to be a nice 5 mile ride.

Yep, this is him on his first ride with Dad's clothes on. He loved the ride and had no problem doing the 5 miles. If fact, after the ride he was asking when we could go again! Who knew!