What a pretty spot!

That definitely suits you!

You are super tough and it actually made me feel less of a weenie having you abort your trip. I really appreciate that and am glad to hear you off on another mini tour!

Interesting to see how they slowly drop out of use. My first grade school was .9 miles (according to google maps) from where we lived. (It is now a boys and girls club.) I remembered it was a long walk ('51-'52). My dad was attending college on the GI bill, building our house, etc. No car till just before we moved in the summer, but then there were no busses.

I mostly remember Eruzione... It was exciting!

I laughed out loud at which you wrote. Preposition anxiety is the thing I have. Forthwith, prepositions I shall not do.

There is a fine line between divine and pretentious.

I'm not a rich boomer, but I am a boomer, so I'm not as hard on other boomers as you are. Indoor accommodations are fine sometimes, but I agree that the outdoor aspects of camping and bike touring go hand in hand.

Hi,
“End a sentence with a preposition? Why, this is a situation up with which I shall not put!”
Cheers

Your footnote about grammar has divine interventions, Gregory 😇

Hi Greg - so glad you've got a chance to settle some things in your head for this tour and the opportunity to get out there for a few more days. It looks like a nice route on RideWithGPS.

I do believe resolve is inversely related to income. Amazing the number of fair weather Boomer riders who can afford to not ride in the rain and stay indoors every night!

When I first got into bike touring, it blew my mind that people rode from motel to motel and only camped if they had to or could not afford roofed accommodation every night. Coming from a backpacking background like you, I just saw bike touring as the bicycle form of that. And with that, you camped because you wanted to and hiked in the rain because... it happened to be raining. So it was interesting to me that non-outdoorsy people 'toured' and it was more about the bike than being outside for them.

For me, it's about the tent, the forest, the rocks, the trees and being outside in all conditions as much as it is about the bike. When I've done some 3-4 day rides where I didn't camp, I really just felt like I was doing a series of day rides instead of 'touring'. I think it's probably the same for you - though it is always good to be out on the bike when the chance presents itself, even if it's not quite your ideal dream ride. Have fun! May the weather gods be kind.

Thank you for that excellent rating. Five stars is what I'd also give to "The Three Amigos", but most of the elitist movie critics were less enthusiastic. Same story with a couple of my other favorite comedies--"Dumb and Dumber," and "The Jerk." Movie critics seem to have no sense of humor.
I especially love "The Three Amigos" because my son and I watched it together on video cassette many times within a couple of months. We both had many of the scenes memorized back then, and to this day, we still quote them when we talk.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Five-star blog rating for using a Three Amigos reference. Would read again.

Thanks Emily. It was a crap tour. I know I whined a lot in this journal, but I don't feel sorry for myself, and I don't want anybody else to feel sorry for me either. It just didn't work out this time and I'll move on. I know you get that.

Hopefully I (and other followers of Ramble Out Yonder) will get to read about your overnight backpack in the Colorado Rockies. It sounds like your having to cut the trip short has some parallels to my failed bike tour, except it had to be even more disappointing considering all the extra training you did for your wilderness adventure.

No surprise there!