RSS Chocolate, compasses and a great deal of heat
Filed in BlogEvery time we take the RV on a road trip we put the bikes into storage because we don’t have a way to bring the bikes along (yet). So yesterday we picked up my bike, and today I went to the post office and just kept going. We’re having a bit of a heat wave now with 100-degree temps and so the cool air rushing past was very welcome. I had promised myself a trip to the chocolate factory in Clements and today seemed a good day since I knew they absolutely had to have good air conditioning there. :)
So I did my little ride there and bought the things I had promised myself months ago when I first saw the place and had a cup of “frozen hot chocolate.” It’s always nice to drink an oxymoron.
Thus energized I came home and dealt with about six months’ worth of junk mail, filing and other nonsense that has to go into the storage shed before we move. My portable office, a folding portfolio/ring binder thingummy, is now a lot lighter and easier to deal with. Obviously I should go off riding more mornings. Oh, and I tried to get a rear footpeg to replace the one that sheared off last Fall, but was told by the scrap yard I called that they didn’t have one, they were made from aluminum and people were always losing ‘em. ;)
Later, Don started messing with our new satellite dish to see if he could align it. One minute he had a compass and the next it vanished, which is fairly typical in my experience. I think we live surrounded by a portable black hole that hides things and spits them out later, usually at night. Either that, or the cats thought the ball-shaped compass was a toy and batted it off somewhere. Either way, without a compass he could not progress, so being a good sport in possession of the only bike for miles I went on a quest to find a compass, which took me about two hours. And now the heat was fully featured reminding me of riding through Nevada in 2006 and wondering why I signed up for that.
I really felt a lot better for riding today, though. It’s been a while since I rode just for the fun of it, what with flat tires and funky gears (that problem seems to have gone away though). Even when the air is so hot that it doesn’t bring much relief at freeway speeds, it’s still somehow soothing to be back in the saddle and leaving the real world twitching in the dust.
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