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Bike ride today. Was planning about 30 miles. Did 6. Hot, grumpy. Was gonna pack it in but then remembered I had planned to go see the Yoda statue at Letterman in the Presidio. Then I had some lunch. Then I went to Tunnel Tops and painted. Then Sophia, my new friend, decided she wanted to try watercolor painting too. Best day ever.

Watercolor painting of a view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Tunnel Tops Park in the Presidio. A recumbent trike is in the foreground. Trees, grass, mountains and San Francisco Bay are also shown.
View of the watercolor painting, watercolor paints, a table, the trike, and the view of the Golden Gate Bridge that was painted. Beautiful blue sky and water.
Partial view of a smiling little girl holding up a painting she did of a flower, and some hearts, and a red sun, and red and green grass. She printed her name Sophia.

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Did the Paradise Loop in Marin yesterday for the first time in a few years. Discovered there is now an honor shack for snacks and water at 2900 Paradise. Well stocked.

Best thing was a note inside on the board from Soren, who did his first Paradise loop. 6 years old. “Dont give up.”

It’s a good thing he wrote that note because the wind got a lot stronger and colder from that point on and I didn’t like it one bit. But he told me not to give up. So I didn’t.

Another shot of the opening of the shed and the sign, but also showing the gated driveway with the house number 2900 in brassy numbers.
Soren’s note, pinned to the corner of a bulletin board, printed in pencil in childish letters: Don’t give up (the n is squeezed in there and there’s no apostrophe) This is my first Paradise Loop I am 6. By Soren

Kleen, to cycling
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One of the many good things about riding a is that you can take a photo like this by leaning backwards in your seat to get

Kleen,
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Some other shots from my ride today on the .

Pacific Ocean laps against a shallow sandy beach with some rocks in it. In the foreground is the edge of a low bluff above the beach. The sky is blue, the waves are small, there is some white foam at the edge of the water as it runs up the sand.
Looking out over the Pacific Ocean at high tide as it rolls over a reef, creating lots of foamy low waves. The foreground is a high bluff with green grass and shrubs and a dirt single-track trail that goes along the edge. A very blue sky crowns it all.
Blue sky, blue water, white foam, brown bluff faces, green grass and other vegetation, with a few trees and houses in the distance.

Kleen, to cycling
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I had the best time on the Great Highway and Golden Gate Park today. So did Pokey. Everyone seemed so happy to be on streets closed to cars.

A piece of art that shows a humpback whale on a car-free street in Golden Gate Park. The back and the tail of the whale are constructed to look like they’re coming out of the asphalt. The rest of the body is pained on the asphalt. Pokey the trike is parked in the space between the back and the tail. Some green grass and eucalyptus trees are in the background.
A chrome and bronze statue with Pokey the trike parked next to it. The bronze figures are sitting astride the back of a chrome humpback whale. The bronzes are human forms with a male dog head and a female rabbit head. The sculpture sits in the middle of car-free JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park. Green grass and trees are in the background.
Pokey the trike is parked on green grass near four giant children’s alphabet play blocks. The blocks are partially buried in the ground but the letters on each one are visible. They spell out L O V E. Children are clambering all over the blocks with a few adults chatting to each other as they watch the children.

Kleen,
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That was some sky today too, wasn’t it.

Just the sky - the interesting puffy clouds and the blue sky.
The clouds and the blue sky seen above a road that runs between stands of tall eucalyptus and Monterey cypress trees, and some green grass beneath them.
The puffy clouds in the blue sky over a small lake with large trees and grass around it.

Kleen, to cycling
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A ride with Pokey accompanied by celestial choirs.

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Accessible cycling: Anyone out there who uses a bike as mobility aid? Either standard bikes, or adaptive ones (recumbent, semi-recumbent, adult trikes, tandem, hand bike,…).

We’ve had fantastic experience with the Hase Pino semi-recumbent tandem.

Mulling over adult trike options for my mom, who’s starting to have balance issues.

Photo of Hase Pino semi-recumbent bike. The stoker is in recumbent position in the front. The captain steers from upright position behind.

Kleen, to cycling
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I went for a around our harbor and out to the point tonight. It was pretty cool. Here’s part 1:

A twilight view of Pillar Point from a place along the outer harbor. The street lights on the bluff are lit, as is the radome. Those lights are reflected in the water as vertical streaks of white. The harbor is at lowish tide, so some beach is exposed. There are no waves. On the right side of the photo are some trees and some boats that are up on land in storage.
A dock in Pillar Point Harbor at night. There are lights along the dock at every berth, leading out to the end of the dock, where it becomes black water. Beyond that are lights from a restaurant, traffic lights, headlights, and homes, very small. There are boats in their berths, usually nose in, all down the dock. None of the boats have any lights on so it’s pretty dark.

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Part 2 of tonight’s :

View over Half Moon Bay at night from near the gate to the radome. There are teeny lights along the water of the harbor from businesses, cars, and houses. There are hills that rise up behind them. There is a marine layer that is cutting off the top of the hills.
Looking back from the inner harbor toward the Air Force station, we see the lights of the docks and the streetlights on the point, and even the red light on top of the radome. The lights are reflected on the low level clouds from the fog. As a bonus, a half moon hangs in the sky above, glowing through the fog.
Outside the harbor, we are at the water’s edge looking along Surfer’s Beach and further south. Red and green traffic lights are reflected in the water and some other random house lights. A line of light in the distance is the underside of the fog lit up by the lights of the city of Half Moon Bay.

Digger_71, to art

Thursday's trike ride. I rode over to the post office at Clifford Gardens and then rode around Toowoomba until I saw this house in Mt Lofty.

A wonky A frame. It's a bit different to the older Toowoomba houses.


A sketchbook with a pen sketch of a house is laying on grass In the bottom left is a bicycle wheel and spokes.
A sketchbook with a sketch of a house held up in front of the house.
My sketchbook with a pen and watercolour sketch of a house. It is on my knee with a finger and thumb holding the bottom corner. On the left beside the book is the wheel of my trike.

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