Road Trip
November 28th, 2009
Hawai'i
This photo was taken at Halema'uma'u Crater at the south end of Kona (the Big Island of Hawai'i) after a 4,000-foot climb from the black-sand beach at Punalu'u, fuelled by Macadamia nuts and Hawai'ian chocolate-the only things worth eating on the Big Island other than the fresh fish served on top of salad that you can sometimes find if you're lucky.
"Tomorrow" we run into a storm bearing 48" of rain.
I don't always ride in places like the Chihuahuan Desert; most of the time I'm grinding back and forth commuting to work. I read somewhere that, for women over 50, the average amount of exercise we get every day vigorous enough to make us puff is ZERO minutes. Ladies, live like you mean it - get yourself a bike and wear it out.
– Cynthia
November 27th, 2009
New Mexico
This photo was taken in May 2006 just south of Taos, New Mexico, on the east side of the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
I had rafted the river the day before, and ridden over the mountains in the background the week before. Three mountain ranges and 600 miles in 21 days, thru desert, pine forest, canyons, and vast open grasslands, past Spanish churches, turquoise mines, and towns straight out of the Wild West; fuelled by atole, sopiapillas, and green chilles.
– Cynthia