For you Ben

Alright, Ill try this one more time now that I am what you would call "settled" in a home. As I asked Ben yesterday to ship the last few of my bikes to me he gave me shit about my blogging or lack there of. So this is for you Ben.
Since I haven't blogged in so long I could write pages bringing you all up to speed but I will try and just bring you back over the next few posts. For now, all you need to know is I'm in Cali working as a Air Traffic Controller, living in a desert and finally starting to get some great riding in...(pictures to come). After a few months of slacking and searching for roads I have a few good set Cty Rd 8 type routes established. Today I took the standard shortest of the them. I like to refer to it as my slick route. This was ride designed for Schlicht. Let me tell you how it goes. First you ride across 10miles of flat desert, similar to ND tundra flat and windier than the JETBLAsT from the Stealth Fighters flying over head. I'm talking a constant 25mph with some nasty gusts. But after that you wish you were as light as slick cause the climbing begins, several thousand feet. Even though it is higher it doesn't matter it will still be 100degrees. On the plus side throughout this ride the roads fair quite well, can't complain on that end. After your first long climb you get to turn with the wind to your back and hit some Minnesota type rollers with Mn scenery, i.e. (for slick remind you) Horses, LLamas, goats, Ponies, Donkeys. Even today I saw two Donkeys doing the hippity dippidy. After all the fun of ponies and what not we get into a couple more thousand feet of climbing followed by a beautiful descent back into the city, where speeds of 50mph come without pedaling and you wish cars could corner as well as you so you wouldn't have to slow down for them. Except for of course the occasionally Ferrari or Porsche that comes whizzing by. Once you get into the city you are greeted by biker friendly roads that have bikes lanes 3-10ft wide all the time. A nice 15min spin down through the city and your back home to your luxurious 1bedroom apartment that cost as much as a mortgage in MN.
Doing the ride backwards is actually almost better, it is what I did today and froze my ass off. This morning it was only in th mid 40's. Which I know makes me sound like a wussy but when it has been 90-100 for the last few months it was quite a shock at 7am. Felt like I was back in Sota, actually quite refreshing. I had on my revo kit of course and I passed 3 other riders.... all of whom had long sleeve wind breakers or arm warmers on, California Bitches!!!

OK thats to much for 1 post
Later