A NIGHT AT THE INN

Well, two nights at the inn.

As you know by now, Jeremy and the Grands were in Alaska for a week to visit with his parents. They got home yesterday with some sickness — throwing up, coughing, stuffy nose, etc.. After much discussion and phone conversations back and forth, for our safety, Sarah got a room for the three of us — Sarah, Susan and me — at the Holiday Inn. We are here two nights and on Tuesday (tomorrow as I write this) Sarah will go home to her family and Susan and I will be driving to the camp outing at Big Trees State Park, about 100 miles from Sarah’s house. The question remains, will any of the Grands be accompanying us. That is yet to be decided. 

In the mean time I continue to get in some riding. There is little to say about the rides except how much I have enjoyed them, so this post will mainly have photos.

One of the rides took me past an ostrich farm. I had passed it several times on different rides and now thought I needed a photo.

A few people (my loyal readers) have asked about the surrounding areas. Outside of Elk Grove community which is green, well tended and with fairly new homes, we have lots of this..

To the right of me…

And to the left of me..

Once on the Levee, there is the lovely river that I have ridden along for most of my rides. This is the area where there are orchards, vineyards and corn fields that I have shown earlier.

I saw this treasure along the route…

Then this little memorial thing showed up, and of course I cannot read the sentiment so have no idea.

Today was a very different ride. I chose one that would keep me within the boundaries of town rather than drift out into the countryside again. It was a gem of a route and felt like I was on a ride with Cindy meandering around Mill Creek back home. Ambled through several different neighborhoods, along many of the many many parks around here, and even got onto a couple of paved trails in town. The traffic was light and the route took me on only two main highways for just a short way. It was a delight.

These cuties were at one of the parks. Mama with baby…

…and Papa kept on alert.

I had to stop in the middle of a diamond…

That is it for now and I wanted to get this posted as I do not know if there will be any way of doing that at our camp outing. I have no time to proof read this so there may be oodles of mistakes. I will publish now and proof read later ;’-)