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Mark’s Cycling & Hiking Blog

Mark’s Cycling & Hiking Blog

 

Got in a good ride on my final day in Ohio while wishing I had scheduled a longer visit.  Not nearly enough time spent with family but again, hope next summer is different.

Tired of hotel stays, I thought I’d do the 26 hour drive, straight through with occasional naps.

Wow, what a spectacular sunrise but no exits where I could stop to take a good pic but this from my side view mirror was kind of different.

The drive went well and just like that, back in beautiful southern AZ where fall has arrived and with it, temps in the 80s!!!  A friend and I took the Sabino tram up to the final stop with the plan to hike back via Phoneline Trail.

We hike the several switchbacks above the canyon but…..

….I some how and embarrassingly, miscalculated the distance by quite a lot. Not having enough fluids, we had to turn around and descend.

The departure time of the Cactus Club group rides has become more reasonable so I jumped in for a 40 mile route.

For the second time in a week, I found myself at a putt-putt course, this time in Tucson.  Quite different scenery as I narrowly beat a friend.  My golf muscles have atrophied of course from virtually no use but now I think my putting skill is deteriorating too, lol.

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