Charmaine tried unsuccessfully to get me to agree to go for a bike ride this morning. I was tired and didn’t feel like going outside. But then Mark and Kristen called to see if we wanted to ride with them. It was once again a beautiful weekend in Utah with clean air (a very rare thing during the winter here), so how could I keep saying no? I’m glad I didn’t.

We started off heading west almost past my work, taking the overpass over the freeway to wind up being able to go south and hook up with the roads around Utah Lake. The lake is still mostly frozen over and the air coming off the lake is still very cold. I was wearing my long gloves and some leg warmers and I was very glad to have them along that stretch. Eventually we ended up heading south on Geneva Road past Utah Valley University and down to where Orem meets Provo.

We headed east up the hill into Provo then north along the road through the really nice houses just west of the Provo River. At Orem Center Street we jogged west to 10th East and headed up to Mark and Kristen’s house and dropped them off (they had ridden from their house to our apartment to pick us up when we started). After dropping them off we headed along the canal trail into Pleasant Grove then flew down the mountain on PG Center Street until we got back home.

Great day for a ride.