Finally, the cow ride!

It was a nice cloudy Sunday so I did the cow ride. This will probably be the last Schwinn ride on the old crank/chain/freewheel. Adios, mis compandres! You have served me well.

I rode out Magnolia in El Cajohn, which is a fairly sucky ride in some places, and I bet it is REALLY sucky on a work day. I rode all the way the El Nopal, (what does that mean?) and hung right.


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There were a couple interesting street signs along the way.





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I really need to find out what that means! (LATER: Nopal is a kind of cactus)





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I saw the ostriches at the egg farm. I wonder if they sell ostrich egg there? The birds did not seem very intereseted in me.




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This woebegone bus reminded me of the ones we ride on going to the Del Mar Fair.




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These building seem scary to me the first time I saw them.


I found a bike path that headed over by El Capitan High School.



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If I had been looking for SHEEP, this pen near El Cap would have been my turn-around point.


I proceded on Maple-something and hung a left on El Monte (I won't mention the dead possum on the way. No, I did not take a picture!)


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If I had been looking for HORSES, this corral on El Monte Road would have been my turn-around point.



I saw a lot of flowers along the way, and about ten bicyclists, too.















































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And finally, the cows! I can turn around and head back now!




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On the way back I saw a HUGE piece of granite with a flag stuck in it. Unfortunately I guessed wrongly the power of the sun, but I got a very dramatic picture, instead of one with detail.



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I made a little detour to get this restaurant that I saw the last time.




Well, this blog has certainly turned into quite a little image mess! Hope I can get it straighted out someday! This image formating is a wierd thing. (LATER: Looks ok on I.E.!)

But, thanks RandomCrap.Net for Free Image Hosting Even though the site is blocked from City Schools, but not County ISP...

LATER LATER: It took me four hours to get this entry up, and three point five to do the ride... and I STILL have no links for the flower-big-images!

Weekly Mileage Totals:

Schwinn -- 38.29
Jamis -- 65.12