This morning I had planned to wait and ride at 8:30 to do a somewhat longer ride to the bike library to turn in my bike when they opened at 10:00. But, waiting as long as I could, I finally set off at 7:50—nearly 2 hours later than my rides in recent days. It was good that I left earlier than I had planned, though, due to some unexpected extra miles.
I'm such a sentimental sap, that as I set off on the Poudre Trail, it made me a bit wistful to be bidding farewell to my home away from home for the last week. But I rode diligently eastward on the trail, past Shields and past College to Linden St., which I took into town to get some cash from an ATM for our trip home today. However, I had to hunt for about 10 minutes before I could finally find one.
After I did, I went back north on Linden to resume riding on the trail, and then took it eastward still further, past Timberline, to the point where the Spring Creek Trail forks off. Then turning around and heading back into town, I ended up at the bike library after a ride of 1 hour 29 minutes, which I figure to have been about 15 miles.
So, it's been a great week of biking in Colorado—and now we're headed back home, where I'll be very glad to get back to my own bike, but not so happy about the weather, which I understand has been quite sauna like in recent days, as opposed to the sunny and pleasantly warm conditions but extremely low humidity we've experienced out here.
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