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You are most welcome! Being able to use the rental van to quickly get from one trail to another let us pick some good ones.
1 year agoI've really enjoyed following your journal. It's given me lots of ideas of trails to ride when we start our trailer traveling next year. Thanks for posting!
1 year agoSumac is becoming spectacularly bright this time of year!
1 year agoGarter snake
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/28378-Thamnophis-radix
Probably a painted turtle... by way of elimination. Not enough red on the shell to be positive, but nothing else fits.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/39771-Chrysemys-picta/browse_photos?place_id=24
Female monarch (thicker dark lines) on sunflowers.
https://extension.umaine.edu/signs-of-the-seasons/indicator-species/monarch-fact-sheet/
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/common-sunflower
Thank you … so many stories and events along the way.
1 year agoThat’s an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations on sticking with it! It sounds like you’ve had a lot of fun on the way, too.
1 year agoSunflowers. Possibly prairie sunflowers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helianthus_pauciflorus
Love the pictures but don’t really like the experience. Got caught by a tornado in Kansas a long time ago. It avoided the town but completely destroyed miles of fields where I had been cycling a few hours before.
1 year agoThanks … still trying to wrap our minds around it and now we are looking to see which states might need more miles ridden in them.
1 year agoCongratulations!
1 year agoYikes!
1 year agoI’m glad you pointed that out. Good job giving perspective!
1 year ago
Larry,
1 year agoJust in case it's of interest, have you heard about the trike rally in Palm Springs? Feb 8-11. That's a six hour drive from Tucson.
https://www.triabike.com/about/winter-escape-recumbent-rally-pg216.htm