Today’s ride was out on part of the North Bank Trail but mostly on the Spoonville and Idema Explorer’s Trails. It took awhile to recover from the distance (30+ miles) and terrible sunburn of the last ride. This ride was about half as long and I was spray-saturated with SPF. I added a little more…
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Getting Fit: longest and farthest bike ride so far this season (now with photos and video)
I’ve been wanting to take this ride since last year and today I did it. I rode from my house, around Muskegon Lake, and out to Lake MI — and back. It would have been cooler if I would have left early in the morning, but instead I left after 11 a.m. My speed continues…
Doodads the week of 0712-071622
It’s been a couple of weeks. Pics have been taken here and there but no time to get them off of the phone and posted. On Tuesday, the 12th, I took a 17-mile bike ride. On Wednesday, the 13th, I met up with the Moon Clan Mothers group up north and saw two giant willow…
#FF — Beating Bright
PHOTO PROMPT © Na’ama Yehuda April’s cloud blankets served to keep us in our caves, vicariously monitoring life through fogged panes of glass and pixelated screens. The second winter of covid had been harsh, perhaps harsher than the first, as our views focused on celebrities hurling dung at each other in courtrooms and maniacs with…
Getting Fit — Snowshoeing at the State Park on January 26, 2022
me on a bridge over the creek in PJ Hoffmaster State Park Cari, my go-to fitness guru, got me back on a back on a bike regularly this past fall. Then she encouraged me to buy a pair of hiking boots to climb dunes with when the weather turned icy. She did it again this…
Doodads — Nature Walk on Christmas Eve
The Land Conservancy of West MI is having a Bow Walk Challenge, where you walk certain trails that have bows placed in them. The challenge is to find the bow, take a selfie with it, submit it, which enters your name into a contest for prizes. I decided to check out a new trail today,…
Monday Pet Peeve on Friday
I’ve got an appointment scheduled for the covid booster on Sunday, but this week I have tried twice to get it before then. The first time, at a local Walgreens, it said on their website that they weren’t taking appointments, but you could walk in whenever and have one done. I drove the ten…
