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A long time ago, I made a list of rides that I would want Bev to do with me. Most of them I pictured us touring on single bikes. I didn't anticipate her love of tandeming. These rides included the Virginia Creeper, New River Trail, Katy Trail, and Cades Cove Loop. Now we've knocked all of them off. I'll have to get busy thinking up a whole new bunch of rides for us. Next week I'll do the Natchez Trace which was one from my own wish list. Who knows what comes next!

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We had another great ride on Saturday. The weather was excellent. Dogwoods were bursting out in blooms. Here we are at the 8 mile post on Bill's Creek Loop. The new tandem performs great on the trail. The combination of stiffness and light weight really gets us through there.

Bev and I took our first official ride on the MTB tandem I built. What a great ride. The lightweight and stiff frame really helped translate power to the wheels. It flew. I'll have to check out the nuts and bolts for tightness but I expect we will get out riding it again very soon. I was telling Bev how the 2 less teeth for each of the chain rings made so much difference in climbing power, it made me think of Mater from the cars movie. With the new bike being mostly red, it made me think of calling it "Mater" or "2-Mater". We got some photos of the woods this morning. With the Dogwoods blooming, it was pretty but still not up to peak yet. Maybe the low of 28 expected Monday night won't hurt the blossoms. Still a couple of weeks till the Safari. We are doing more riding to be ready. We have the girls on standby for Mawmaw. All we need to do is get throught these weeks without injury.