7:30 AM. Up and dressed. Extra socks. Cold Cold Cold.The plan is simple. Do 50 miles or 3 hours of riding, whichever comes first. Attempts to sell wife on coming pick me up someplace remote on the SCU Nockamixon Century route didn’t work out. Something about the benefit to me being bigger than her interest in seeing some of the most scenic back roads in PA.
7:45 AM. Dead deer skeleton frozen in a ditch. The smell of horses.
8:15 AM. flock of wild tukeys holding court on somebody’s dirt driveway. I stopped and reached for my point and shoot. They penguin shuffled away by the time I had it out.
8:30 AM. Hollowhorn Road, Red hill Road, Tinicum Church road. Lots of ups and Downs, in and outs. Climbing makes the legs sore. Downhills bring stiff freezing headwind.(I mentioned it was cold. right?) . Bottoms of Hills with road side creeks. They knock a few degrees off the temp.
Which is nice.
9AM. I turn around. 20 miles 1.5 hours. Following the Nockamixon Century in reverse doesn’t work out so well. I get lost a few times. And end up taking 611 for a number of miles.
11:20AM. I find a guy selling Easter flowers about a mile from my inlaws. I dig 3 dollars out of one of my pockets, pay for some daisies or whatever and ride down the hill.
11:30AM. Eat all bacon and pancakes that inlaws left when they went to church. Very sore.animals I saw: Wild Turkeys, chickens, more chickens, not live deer(1 with flesh attached, 1 without…previously mentioned), red wing black birds(early for them to be around, I think), some ducks, Canadian geese, starlings, sparrows, a blue bird, blue jays, cardinals(males), alpacas in a farm, cows, a sign for pigs for sale, horses, a sign for horses for sale…a chickadee.
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if you were a real husband you’d brought some of that deer home to eat.
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