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Don't dis Food City(on 22nd) :-)
I go out of my way to go to that store. They have the best selection of spices, meats and vegetables for cooking Mexican food.
You are right, in that they don't have the best selection of gabacho food.
The Papa Loco run was my most common route. And I always stopped for tacos. The carnitas or carne asada tacos are the best.
And as you found, it is popular with a lot of bicyclists on the loop.
I don’t think so. I’m sure Bill is pretty grizzled, but these just look like ordinary desert plants.
3 years agoI guess I've been lucky to not have an up close and personal experience. I didn't know there were two lengths of barbs waiting to get me! I will admire them from afar.
3 years agoSome people have no idea of left/right. At times on the bike path, I will wait until I am obviously going to pass on the side with the most room, riding within a few inches of the pavement edge and holler "Passing on your LEFT!" and they will step directly in front of me as I dodge into the weeds and yell "The OTHER left!" Had one do that yesterday and she yelled something back (can't half hear any more) and I yelled back that I had whistled and yelled. Too deep into the electronics... Oblivious to surroundings I guess.
3 years agoSpines are spines... glochids are the tiny ones at the base. Stealthy!
Harmless looking beavertails are the worst... They have little wart-like tufts of orangish looking glochids that look totally benign. When I was a kid and learned the hard way at 10 years old, I pulled out my microscope and looked at them. Nasty barbs!
Sue,
Jacinto agrees with your assessment of the Rancho Vistoso area. He rode that direction today. I looked at the menu for the Baja Cafe - it looks like breakfast is the meal to eat there!
Bill,
Looking at the mountains has been my excuse for years. In Colorado, I can look at the mountains and at least have an idea of which direction to go. There are also mountains here. Maybe I'm leaning on Bertha too much, instead of looking around . . . I'm trying to decide if I need to ride that intersection AGAIN tomorrow or go for something new . . . .
I had an aide on the bus who couldn't do left and right. She would say 'my side or your side' . . . I followed along after awhile . . . . I'd laugh at myself if I weren't so annoyed . . .
3 years agoLook at me learn something new! I thought they were spines - now I can impress people saying glochids. Gloh-kis - I looked up the pronunciation also!
Kelly
You can eat cows tongue prickly pears! They are quite good, but just be sure all the glochids are off! They drive you nuts trying to pull them from your mouth...
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/cacti-succulents/prickly-pear/cows-tongue-prickly-pear.htm#:~:text=Native%20to%20central%20Texas%20where,by%20Native%20Americans%20for%20centuries.
If it’s any consolation, I missed the turn at Camino de la Terra also - the FIRST time. Twice in one day is approaching record-setting territory, and putting you in Rachael’s league. She has trouble with lefts and rights, among other navigational issues. When I’m calling out directions from behind, I’m hard pressed on whether it’s a better bet to call out the correct instruction or the opposite one.
3 years agoDirections. When I arrive someplace, I try to take note of landmarks like mountains and whatnot in the distance, associating N/S/E/W with them. That way, when I get "lost" I can just look at the landmark in the direction I want to go (or if there is none that way, look for the landmark in the opposite direction) and head that way. Works pretty well if things are laid out on a grid, or if it is in wilderness.
When we moved to Dayton, OH, I would drive downtown for something and if it was cloudy (keeping me from figuring directions using the sun), with wrong way streets that intersect at all angles and railroads with limited crossings, and no good landmarks and rivers with limited crossings that intersect, it would often take me an hour to find my way back home... It is less than 2 miles to downtown...
Ah. Got that in there now. Thanks. It was at the top of my mind until it wasn’t!
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