Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Happy Mothers Day!
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!
I finally got all of these uploaded and sorted. I love ya!!
At the house just before leaving...
My fully laden bike...boy was that a pain going up hills! Talk about a fall risk too whenever we stopped!
At San Onofre State Beach
At the top of Torrey Pines hill. Oh my gosh this thing was huge!!!! Just north of La Jolla
Waiting for the tram in San Diego
At the Dolphin Show at Sea World
Go Shamu!
Me and the big guy
Smooching Manatees
Self portrait at Sea World
Enjoying a beer at the Anheiser Busch Hospitality Center
Sunset over San Diego Harbor
On the train to Napa
Yes, it looks crazy, but it is actually really good!
Enjoying dinner in the dining car
Our tour guide at Mumm Winery in Napa
On the patio at Mumm
In the tasting room. Awesome champaigne!
Painted on the bathroom wall...
On the ride back from Mumm to our hotel
Stopped to smell the roses...they were awesome!
In front of our hotel in Napa
On the road from Napa to Sonoma
The first of Theresa's three flat tires in three days
All fixed!!!
eating lunch at the park in Sonoma
Clowning around at the mission in Sonoma
My hero!
I wish our barracks were this nice now...
Our angel Karen who rescued us on the road from Sonoma to Petaluma
Riding through Marin County...
About to ride across the Golden Gate Bridge...very cool!
Pat's Run in San Jose. We ran on the team for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and had a great time! Theresa is third from the left in the front and I'm just above her.
At Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
At Henry Cowell Redwoods State ParkThis picture does not do justice to the INSANITY of these hills! we were walking our bikes up and we couldn't stop because even with the brakes fully engaged the incline was so steep that the bikes would slide down the hill!
Our last night in Salinas
Our train on the way back
At Union Station in Los Angeles on the way home
Whew...All done!
Trip totals: 350 miles total, average 45 miles per day on riding days, top speed 32 mph.