I headed back to the North Sulfur River yesterday, trying out a new access point. I haven’t been finding ammonites at NSR, but found these yesterday. Click the photos to be able to zoom in and get a closer look.
I also found what look like mosasaur bones. The top left is a vert, the top middle looks like a transverse broken off a vert, and that looks like a rib on the left. I’m not sure what the smaller lower bones are.
I took off on the Corsa this morning and rode out to Martins Mill. From there, I did a loop, south on FM 1861, east on FM 2339, north on FM 773, then west back to Martins Mill on FM 858. Then I took the more southerly route home from Martins Mill.
It was sunny, and got up into the 60’s this afternoon, but it didn’t feel that warm, with a north wind blowing that just got harder as the day went. I ended up with 76.4 miles.
Today’s route.
It wasn’t much of a bike commuting week this week. I was so wiped out from Sunday’s windy 200k that I just drove to work Monday rather than riding. I had medical appointments on both Wednesday and Friday, so didn’t ride those days either. I rode Tuesday and Thursday, and got an extra 5 miles on the ride home Tuesday, making a stop at Performance Bike to pick up some tubes.
2012 days ridden to work: 10
2012 commuting mileage: 250.3
Work commute route with side trip to Performance Bike.
I rode to work all five days this week. There will be no bike commuting next week; I’m on vacation. The wind was gusting to 50 mph on my ride home yesterday, making it the windiest day I’ve ever bike commuted on. Thankfully, it was blowing from the west northwest, a quartering tailwind that let me keep the bike right side up, though there were interesting moments here and there.
That was the worst blowing dust I’ve seen in a long time. My lung leftovers really don’t like that kind of dust in the air, especially while I’m huffing and puffing on a bike.
And the wind changed my vacation plans. Instead of spending today on Lake Fork, casting to bedding bass, I’ll be spending the day rebuilding my fence the wind blew down.
2011 days ridden to work: 64
2011 commuting mileage: 1545.6