Lovely! Great photos! On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Isaiah Kramer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cool Mark! I dig slowing the pace and shortening the distance to bring the > less bike-crazy partner along. For me at least, the dialied-down civilized > pace is made-up-for by the added challenge of being a guide, picking the > route wisely and hauling 80% of the gear. > > On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 7:46:01 AM UTC-7, Mark Reimer wrote: >> >> After last weekend's swamp adventure, it was time to dial things back a >> bit. I spent Friday building up my wife's Surly Cross Check with a few Riv >> accents - Albatross bar, bar-end shifters, green-label Jack Brown's, Brooks >> B17S, small Wald basket, even gave my best shot at a harlequin wrap with >> twine finishing! She loved it. We decided to go for an overnighter to the >> same park as the swamp, but this time stick to a proper camp site. It was >> also our second anniversary so this would be a nice way to get away >> together. >> >> We left home and it started to rain almost immediately, so we found >> shelter in a stairwell downtown. It was over soon enough and we made our >> way along the bike paths out of the city, by which time it was blue skies >> and hot hot hot! A warm tail wind pushed us along the trail as we sipped on >> Radlers and dodged Canadian Geese on the path. >> >> Rolling into the park a few hours before sunset, we lay on the beach and >> went for a swim. Then it was a campfire and sleeping under the stars. >> >> In the morning I realized I forgot my stove burning element, and we had >> used up all the firewood the night before, so we hit up a fancy restaurant >> in the park. Felt a bit out of place in my muddy clothes, but what can you >> do. A man needs to eat. Afterwards we had a tail wind blow us back home. >> Had a wonderful time and substantially more relaxed than the swamp ride, >> hah! >> >> More pictures on MY FLICKR. >> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/albums/72157655053487994> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-maHV0nKSvpE/VdHzhmNsAwI/AAAAAAAAL3c/dIcDyWokQ8Q/s1600/_DSC4549.jpg> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
