Recovery Ride

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Lassen and Plumas counties really have it together in the people moving business. I have been able to bounce around in between rides at a half-price senior rate with my bike and gear, right on time, where I've wanted to go - like to the Susanville Library, for instance. Kudos to the planners.

All I wanted out of the rest of the day was to ride for an hour or so to stretch my legs and get a little burn going. The hot temps faded a little, so it was a perfect day for a recovery spin. I took a West Lassen County bus to Lake Almanor and slowly made my way along the east shore down to Canyondam at the south end of the lake. What a gorgeous ride!

Then I waited by the store and the hamburger stand (Canyondam is small, but mighty) for the Plumas County bus to take me to Quincy. This is the section I may have mentioned previously - the section where the Adventure Cycling Association strongly suggests you take the bus so as to avoid getting runned over by logging trucks. You don't have to tell me stuff like that more than once. And hey, the store has weird stuff to look at while you are waiting, so bonus points.

Quincy is a cool place where I have zeroed a few times before. I'm pretty sure I will do it again. My bike shorts and jersey reek, really, really reek. The Quincy laundromat will fix that to the great joy of Plumas Counteans, both living and dead.

I will report on the status of the world famous  Pangaea Health Food Store in the next installment.

I have basically decided to crawl my way at least to Truckee, then re-assess from there.

Peace, Love, and Mass Transit,
Jim