We’re getting out on a ride today but we’re time boxed two ways. It’s overcast, cold and dampish this morning, and right at freezing when we first check the weather. And, we have to be back in time for Rachael’s phone consultation with the ENT doctor who diagnosed and set Rachael up for surgery on her nose.
So a longer ride is out. We have a few such in mind but they’ll have to wait for a fairer and less constrained day. Instead, once it warms up enough we bike out east of town again and then just keep traveling east, following Riverside Drive and then Bryant Way until we reach Bryant Park at the confluence of the Willamette and Calapooia, right at the outskirts of Albany. A pretty short ride, so we pad it with excursions along dead end spurs along the way; and as usual Rachael sprints ahead when I stop for pics, doubles back, sprints ahead again and manages to pack in an extra ten miles before we both finally make it back to the apartment.
the whole ride is cold but otherwise fine, but the highlight is definitely passing by Iron Water Ranch and admiring its sheep. Like that sheep farm we just as on Sauvie Island, we’re here at the ideal time for the newborns.
On Walcott Street, a road to nowhere we racked on just to add a few miles.
At Iron Water Ranch, the highlight of the day’s ride. if it weren’t so cold we could have spent a long time standing around ogling over the sheep and lambs.
We’re back in plenty of time for Rachael’s consultation with her doctor. We’ve got a terrific place here in Corvallis - excellently appointed, with one whole chair and even a lap board if we want to have breakfast in bed.
Rachael raved over her dinner at Del Alma tonight: Sautéed prawns served with Dungeness crab potato taquitos, broccoli, cherry tomato pico de gallo, sweet potato, sweet pea greens, and a crab-scented cream sauce. Two thumbs up, she exclaims, even better than McMenamins!
Scott AndersonTo Andrea BrownWell, I did think of you at least when we biked past. It hasn’t even been two years though. Too soon. Reply to this comment 2 years ago
