Beautiful, Sunny, White Friday

Literally chillin' in Denver helping Hicks get settled in and unpacking.  It's sunny with snow on the ground, 37 degrees and amazingly beautiful.  Definitely a treat for my first visit to Denver! 

Although, the movers are gone and a nap has been taken, not one box has been unpacked yet!  And I'm hungry again!  Lol!  Looks like this will be a long night hopefully emptying most of the boxes and making this place livable and closer to feeling like his new home. :-)

Enjoy the journey!

Portland Bike Vacation

Wow! I just came back on New Years Eve from visiting Portland, Oregon for 6 days and I had an awesome time experiencing their bike community. I'm tired from riding the trails, bike lanes and sharrows of Portland and the surrounding cities, as well as from sight-seeing; and excited because it was such an eye-opening experience to see what can be done to make cities truly bikeable. I'll post more about my adventures this week.

Enjoy the journey!

Christmas Candlelight Tour

The Saturday night Rancho Los Cerritos Christmas Candlelight Tour in Bixby Knolls was a real treat! This year was my first time attending and Eric and I rode our bikes from my house up to Bixby Knolls and had a fun time doing it. I've been breaking in my "new" vintage 3 Speed Schwinn and it is definitely different from riding on my rode bike. I still need to confirm this, but based on my research, my bike is either a 1955 or 1957 Schwinn made out of good ole' American steel. So it is very heavy compared to my aluminum Trek rode bike, and makes for challenging climbs even on small hills. Even with that, and issues transporting it, I have a ball riding it around town. Eric cleaned it up and got it in working condition with a cute new seat, basket and bell, so now I can roll around town in style on my spruced up vintage Schwinn. Now that's hot! Lol!

Enjoy the journey!

A Friday Night Full of Sharks & Stingrays

In the city of Long Beach, on a cold fall Friday night, I got to enjoy the free Shark Lagoon at the Aquarium of the Pacific. It was a real treat to see the various kinds of sharks and stingrays from small to large. My favorite was the sawfish who's nose really looked like a saw! Lol! The stingrays took me back to a small island off the coast of Nicaragua called Little Corn. I spent my birthday there last year exploring the island and decided to take a boat ride out for a snorkeling trip. While snorkeling I saw an eagle ray stingray who appeared to be following me! Needless to say, I freaked out, took a couple of pictures, and swam back to the boat safely. The reason I freaked out was because I'd never seen a spotted stingray before and I didn't know their behavior patterns or if I was in danger until the boat captain educated me and I also googled it when I got home. I knew the regular gray stingrays weren't aggressive and they'll let you touch them as long as you don't mess with their tails. The close up of the black spotted eagle ray is a rushed photo of Little Corn's Spotty :-)

Enjoy the journey!

Chillin In Lake Arrowhead

It snowed last night in Lake Arrowhead!  There was already snow on the ground when I got here on Friday, but I was treated to a beautiful shower of snow late Saturday night.  Then I got a little concerned because I am not in a car that's snow ready nor do I have chains.  I'm hoping a snow plow comes by before I need to head back home in a of couple hours.

This weekend I got to sleep without waking up to an alarm clock, lounge around when I did get up, and I had absolutely nowhere to be and nothing to do!  Now that is what I call having a wonderful, relaxing weekend.  Just what I needed to come back ready to wrap up my year strong!

Enjoy the journey!

1st Cali Bike Tour with Robin's Crew!

Shoreline Park Lighthouse & Long Beach Museum of Art Bike Tour

What an afternoon of fun with Robin, Terri, Maribel and little Kiera! This is the start of something beautiful!!!

Prayers Answered

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray to God my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray to God my soul to take

For some reason the childhood prayer my mother taught me just came to mind and it felt good reminiscencing. :-) I'm not sure if it's correct, but for the most part that's how I remembered it.

As a child I had no real concept of God, Jesus, or prayers.  As a seasoned adult and Christian these have become very real to me and are an integral part of my life.  I am currently experiencing prayers being answered.  My longtime prayers being answered.  It's awesome when God shows out!  And it's amazing, and wonderful, and exciting, and scary all at the same time!  I've hesitated to run into it with all of me because it's been so long, how can it possibly be happening now?  For me?  Well, as I look around, there's only me standing in this position, so it must be for me.  Lol!  It's like things have been strategically placed, and all I have to do is reach out or look to the right, and everything I need is around me.  This is awesome and I refuse to walk in fear!  I just needed to remind myself that I have been prepared for this day and I plan to represent.

Enjoy the journey!