Posted in Bikes and Biking | July 2nd, 2008 by Craig No Comments »
We are still at the exploring stage of the area bike trails. There are so many miles of local trails yet to be discovered by us, and we rode part of the Keystone Trail North yesterday.
Both of us are enjoying these summer outings, and wonder why we didn’t buy a couple bicycles years ago.
Keystone North Trail goes under several streets we have driven in our car many times, yet things look so much different from the trail, and it’s fun to come to these places from a different approach, wonder where exactly we are, then realizing we know the place.
In the above picture the Nebraska Furniture Mart is in the background. I didn’t even know there was a biking trail next to the parking lot, and we’ve lived here for years!
Our preference of trails differ a bit, Vicky would rather ride a familiar trail, and I would rather try out a new path we have never been on. Riding this new (to us) section of the Keystone was sort of a compromise. We’ve ridden another section of this trail, so going to the north portion sort of satisfied Vicky’s desires to be on a trail we have already ridden, and it was a new location to me, so I was happy.
Posted in Bikes and Biking, Outdoors Misc | June 16th, 2008 by Craig No Comments »
Saturday we loaded our two bicycles on the car’s bike rack and headed down to take a ride of the Bellevue Loop Trail, which is south of Omaha.
Leaving home, the weather was just about perfect for a bicycle ride. Somehow the weather changed between our home and Bellevue, and by the time we arrived it was windy enough to make bicycle riding a hassle instead of fun.
We both thought “What if the wind gets worse than this?”
Okay, before I go any further on this entry I’ll tell you about the above picture. It was taken at the Bellevue Loop Trail parking on La Platte Road. As you can see, there was quite a bit of water covering the entrance to the trail. The trail north of here was under water a bit, though we talked to a jogger that just came up from the south, and he said the trail was fine south of here, but the Missouri River was flooding.
We decided to see if by chance it was less windy at the Haworth Park trail entrance, but it was just the same. A quick trip to Council Bluffs and the Iowa Riverfront Trail and we learned it was windy there too.
No bike ride this weekend, we sure hope the weather is better and less windy next time we go out.
