Well now I have more appreciation for the road support on this ride. There really wasn't much of a shoulder, I'm glad we didn't have to play keep away with traffic.

Although Charleston Road is popular with the local cyclists, we found it to be busier than we expected, given that popularity. How pleasant to ride it without cars!

You sure have an interesting history!

Good memories of Ramsey Canyon! Spring 1968 taking mammalogy at ASU, during spring break my buddy who was also taking it at Humboldt State drove down and we trapped small mammals (mouse & rat species) there for our required collections. It was a bit more wild in those days!

There's no doubt that's a more rational plan Rachael.

I’d definitely say you are both ready for your next road tour and I’m glad you survived all the trail riding! Although, you definitely didn’t convince me to try trail riding. I’m going to stick to hiking those kinds of trails!

Thanks! I have an old book on Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest. This is the first time I've really used it. The rains have made it quite an inspiring year to be here.

By George I think you're right. I'm amazed you could spot them from this photo.

True enough. Doesn't seem so steep without the ankle turners to pick our way around.

Still looks pretty steep to me. Nobody bothers to cut stairsteps into flat terrain... :)

Nice photos! Good job on the IDs too!

Looks like maybe a few pincushions lower left.

https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxon=2869

It's a shame about leaving the SD card behind. My recurring sin seems to be neglecting to check the state of charge on the battery when I'm setting out after a period of not using the camera.

The LUMIX seems to chew through a charged battery much faster than my older Olympus point-and-shoot, although I've learned the hard way to turn off the GPS on the Oly when it's not in use because it seems to remain active even when the camera's powered off.

I bought a charger and two spare batteries for the LUMIX before we went traveling in January and, although I've never needed all three batteries in a single day's shooting, it was good to know I had them.

Hi John,
I go to the journal settings and enter Barry's CycleBlaze username as the second author, then Save. It's worked for me on all three journals now. Good luck with it.

I actually just have a general question about your journal. How did you get the system to recognize your second author? I'm starting a journal for an upcoming ride, and no matter how ofter I enter a second author in the Settings, it doesn't recognize it. I haven't heard back from the CycleBlaze folks.