the smogivars are biking from SF to LA

Dave's birthday ride

In early March, Dave had a birthday & we celebrated in the hippie town of Bolinas

This was one of our favorites out of a deck of inspirational hippie cards we found inside the house. Unicorns have proven to be an important power animal during our AIDS/Lifecycle training. And we're real good at makin' mistakes!

We drove up to Point Reyes National Seashore with our bikes. The cows were way too close for my comfort!

It was so cold & green & beautiful. Are we in Ireland?

We were gifted a car and the first thing we did was attach a bike rack to it.

Estero Trailhead.

Dave rolling out.

Self portrait. These cows scared the you-know-what outta me!

They kept saying mooo! and giving me dirty looks and the young ones would run in front of me.

And this was my 1st time clipping into the bike pedals so of course I fell down.

Pt. Reyes is gorgeous! http://www.nps.gov/

Just throwing back some G2 by the seaside.

And then I slipped on the gravel and couldn't unclip.

Grab ur knee if you feel stupid!

But we got back up & pedaled past the scary, happy cows.

We come in peace! We come in peace! Srsly, they are terrifying up close.

ouch.

And then we left the pretty park.

LOVE. If you've never been here, go! Camp at Wild Cat campground. Do it! Just try not to think about why it's called Wild Cat.

Birthday boy stroll on a very cold beach.

Our pretend hippie vacation home.

Bolinas, we heart you.

If you told me we'd be biking up your hills & down Hwy 1 in a few months, I would not believe you. It still makes me a little nauseated to think about it.

just a ride around the town

So we decided to make the jump. We will be doing AIDS/Lifecycle on a tandem! Isn't it cuuute?

Just kidding. Can you believe some people do this?
One divorce, please....

We saw that bike when we strolled by Sports Basement for some gear & experimented w/some sugar free electrolytes. Tangerine ginger- thumbs up, Lemon chai- not so much...

This counts as a hill, right? Dave has to hear stuff like this all the time!

Just one of the largest hospital ships... not sure why it wasn't in Haiti.

Pigeons love Dave.

Foggy ballpark. Let's go, Giants! http://sanfrancisco.giants.

Ferry Building Farmer's Market

http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/

Up to Fort Mason http://www.fortmason.org/

To a windy Chrissy Field http://www.parksconservancy.org

Warm it up at the warming hut. http://www.yelp.com/

The sun came out when we were finally heading back home.

did you realize peewee was living in SF when his bike was stolen?

Yes, that is a map of San Francisco

We live right there. Nerd alert.

PeeWee says, What are you waiting for?

Donate to AIDS/Lifecycle already!

Click here for Anne http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/anne

and here for Dave http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/dave

ride to mill valley

So we are so very behind on posts! We apologize. You will soon see what we've been busy doing... When the rains finally let up (mostly) in February, we really got going with our AIDS/Lifecycle training. I don't remember why, but we did this training ride on our own. A roundtrip from SF to Mill Valley- about 30 miles?

The bridge looked a little foggy but it warmed up quickly & was a gorgeous day. Once you head out of town and through Sausalito, there is a very nice bike bath that takes you to Mill Valley's cute little park- where we caught our breath & saw a ton of cute kids learning to ride.