The girlfriend and I also went to DC on Sunday to ride around in the nice weather. I thought the monument area would be too busy for bikes because of all the Cherry blossom watchers, so we rode the Capital Crescent trail instead to "Kenwood" an old neighborhood outside Bethesda that has lots of older larger cherry trees which turned out to still be in the bud stage. The trees were a disappointment but the ride was great. The girlfriend rode her new to her 1993 MB-3 that I built up over the winter with Albatross bars (used to be my MTB that I bought in 1994) and I rode an 1993 XO-3.
I'm not sure what the fountain area near the capital is all about but its one of my favorite places in DC to take a rest while riding. Dave J Northern Neck, VA On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 1:06:47 AM UTC-4, Michael wrote: > > The weather seems to have finally warmed up here on the central east > coast. ~69 degrees Sunday. The air feels warm again. > So the wife and I took an afternoon break from helping family who lives 1 > mile from the Mall in the DC area to scoot over to the Mall on our bikes > for some fun cruising and sights. > Slow, sightseeing cruising fun. From the Capital to the Monument, to > Lincoln Memorial and back to family. > 5 miles. 1.5 hours walk/ride. Lotsa fun. The walk part was getting through > the crowds around the monument and WWII memorial. > Saw a ton of bikes. Lotsa interesting bikes locked up over every square > inch of the city indicated that alot of people ride in the city. > > Best riding was through the pebbled walkways of the museum-ed area and the > nice conreted reflecting pool walkways. The reflecting pool looks to only > be about 8 inches deep or so. > > Puzzler: What is the story behind the Bronze looking Asian style street > lighting around the Capitol? > Also, What is the story behind that Chinese style bungalo with the water > fountains inside on the grounds of the Capital? No signage I saw to tell. > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
