Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

100 Miles and riding… the 3F’s Century Ride   Funny thing is I writing you from my shed. No shit, I’m sitting on the table in my little shed out back of my house. Things have gone from moving double time to light speed now.    The movers are here. A day early. Storms across the Rockies lead them to asking if I could do the move a day early. Dios Mio! I thought I was ready.    So, this is the blog you get, instead of the blog, I wanted to write:). I’m afraid if I don’t do this right now, I’ll be so wrapped up in the trip across country that, I’ll never get this done.   The Ride:   There couldn’t have been a better day weather wise for riding 100 miles! It was perfect. I think the high was 78 degrees last Saturday in Colusa.   The 3F’s is a very small event. Nothing like the glitz and glamour of that we found in May at the Wine Country Century. Bigger doesn’t mean better, it was just different.    We started out on our tour of Colusa and the Buttes (said as beauts not butts) at 7 a.m. it

  Post Ride Picture forgot take a riding shot, it was 92 out so forgive the sternum bush   "We're in the endgame now."  Dr. Stephen Strange, Avengers: Infinity War    “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” Gandalf the White, Return of the King     I don’t think Dr. Strange could have summed it up any better.  We’re in the endgame now!  As the other great Wizard I know also said so eloquently the board is set and the pieces are moving, but instead of coming to the great battle of our time we are coming to an apex point in our timeline: we are less than a week from the 3F’s Century Ride and less than two weeks from when the movers arrive to finish the packing and we leave for Indiana.  We are indeed without question in the endgame now.     90% of the house is packed up.  Almost all the furniture is gone.  After I finish here, I will reach out to Carvana and sell Snowflake, my 2012 Chevy Volt.  The last stuff to pack i

Time is short now… Lots of pictures and videos this week!   We are in October.  Time is short now we are 13 days out from my Century and about 18 days out from me leaving for Indiana.  Wow! Where does the time go?  Chip has his ticket to fly out.  The movers are scheduled.  I am closing tomorrow on the California home and on Friday we close on the Indiana home.  Really where does the time go?   Last Saturday was blow your legs out day!  LOL!  That is what is felt like.  The directive was to ride about the same distance and the prior week but add more climbing to it.  So, it took all my stoogely cunning to get a ride mapped out that was approximately the same distance but added more climbing. The issue is to match up the distance with the climbing.  Getting one or the other isn’t the problem, getting them, both lined up now that was a bit tricky, but I did it, I just had to something I really didn’t want to do but that seems to be par for the course these days!   I had to break out my n