Dad’s riding a mountain bike with us!

We have a spare bike (actually two) now that Rich and I have our new wonder machines. It took about two weeks, but we convinced Dad to join us on the River Trail for a short ride, just to get acquainted with a mountain bike and to see the kind of simple riding we often do around here. We rode from the parking lot on Bridge Street in Jessup down to the Laurel Street Park in Archbald, where we circled around and rested for a few minutes at the bench next to the river. He easily understood the basics of shifting (and he greatly appreciated the new style of shifters!) and had no real trouble with the ride except for a sore butt. He soon learned why we like to wear cycling shorts. With a little practice he’ll soon be keeping up with us easily, and he won’t feel sore for three days afterward!

… Dad’s first mountain bike ride with Team Moose!

Corsa Dei Ceri — The Finish Line, by thePAyeti

Log by Zhanna:

Hi, PAyeti!

I was out on the patio planting lettuce when Rich checked his e-mail and saw that a new cache had popped up. It was practically across the street! Even though we haven’t been geocaching much lately, we really had no excuse not to try for a First Find on this one. I joked to Rich that with how voracious local geocachers have been recently, we probably wouldn’t have a chance at a First Find even on a cache that was only a few hundred feet from home. It turns out we were right! The coordinates led us right to the spot where we had expected to find the cache, just moments ahead of another person who was holding some sort of electronic device and was heading in the same direction. We checked the correct hiding spot immediately, but we found only the lid of the container. The other geocacher, Zgoda3, approached us with the rest of the cache in his hand. He had indeed found it first, but he had to go elsewhere to find a pen in order to sign in. Rich and I signed in at the #2 spot and took a photo before walking back home. Thanks!

Zhanna

… Zhanna signs her first log sheet in quite a while!

Log by Rich:

I doubt anyone could have been a more lazy geocacher than I was today. This cache is barely more than a couple of hundred feet from home. And that’s pretty much the main reason I felt like going for it, especially since the notification had just appeared in my e-mail only minutes ago.

See Zhanna’s log below for more details. (She just told me that now I’m too lazy to write my own log!!!)

Thanks for the cache!

~Rich in NEPA~

After all this excitement, you wouldn’t think the evening could get better. But it did! The sunshine continued and the day got even warmer, and we met my parents at Chicano’s in Scranton to share with them the wonder of delicious, authentic tacos. Ahh … tacos!

Today John and Chris completed all 40+ miles of the Five Boro Bike Tour in New York City. It was a terribly hot and humid day and riders were dropping like flies all over the place, but John and Chris persevered. Lance got stuck at the back of the pack and John was free to fly all the way to the finish … sadly, he was passed by a girl in the last few seconds of the final sprint!

… Chris and John audition for "Bikers Gone Wild: Five Boro Bike Tour Edition!" Coming soon on DVD and Blu-Ray to a porn shop near you!

Of course, Rich and Zhanna just had to complete a 5 Boro Bike Tour of their own: Olyphant, Peckville, Jessup, Winton, and Archbald!