I suppose while waiting for your food you could do some climbing.

This must be a really wide angle. I like it. Beautiful! Or, wait, is it a fairly short panoramic?

I know exactly where it was, because I was watching for it on Tangerine Road a few days earlier and didn’t see it. We stumbled on it by accident today because I’d misremembered where I’d seen it the first time and was looking in the wrong spot. It’s on La Canada Drive, on the east side of the road a few hundred yards north of the intersection with Tangerine.

I'm trying to remember where this sculpture was as I know we'd ridden by it. Reminds me a lot of Borrego Springs.

Hey!

Clearly true - she hangs out with you! :)

With a week’s additional experience now, the opinion is still the same. I didn’t bother mounting the light on the short ride over to pick up the car at the glass shop and felt exposed and off my rhythm.

Thanks!

Love your details on how you think it's an advantage over the mirror and I'm nodding my head to all of them. Especially knowing what is approaching while riding into a headwind. I found it particularly challenging to maintain a straight line if the wind was hitting the front panniers and I was trying to keep glancing at the glasses mirror.

Thanks for the idea, Marilyn. A jersey pocket is perfect for me though, and I’ve done it this way for decades. I’ve broken cameras before, but not when pulling them out of the shirt. It’s unique to this shirt I think.

Yup: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/muralmap/

I use a small waist/fanny pack that holds the camera. Plus the camera has a wrist strap so I can wrap it around my wrist when I pull out the camera. It's easy to unzip the pack, pull out the camera and snap a pic - even riding with one hand! The pack is also handy for carrying things like chapstick. Since I ride a recumbent, I can't put anything in my jersey pockets.

I've enjoyed your mural pictures. Does Tuscon have a map showing their locations?

Not going to happen. Don’t even think about it, Rocky!

I think Fire is the best available match from these options. The light makes so much difference though - I imagine if I stood somewhere else it would look totally different. In any case I knew tangerine wasn’t right. It’s just been on my mind ever since riding Tangerine Road.

And yes, I don’t doubt that you’re getting quite stir crazy. Even without waiting for Dotie’s complete recovery to evolve I’m sure you’d be sick of the rain, wind and snow by now. Our sympathies.