3/13 Phoenix-Apache Junction 59 miles
Another delicious, cool, sunny day. A leisure stroll out of the city with light, Saturday morning traffic, bike lanes everywhere (Phoenix seems to be a bike friendly place - overall courteous drivers) Rode through lovely neighborhoods in Scottsdale. Sagged in a pretty park where Linda's’ (from Phoenix)bike group of at least 30 bikers showed up to send her off. Great fanfare. Rode on a bike lane through this lovely park for 4 miles. Started getting lulled into thinking this was going to be a breeze of a day. SURE. Then we hit a road detour and ended up on very busy, spotty bike lanes and not too scenic Broadway Blvd.for what seemed like 100 miles.Topped that adventure off with 6 harrowing miles up to Apache Junction on US 60, a freeway for a few miles (not bad ) but then the freeway ended, the double lanes of cars continued to speed as if it was still a freeway and the wide shoulder turned into a narrow one with rumbles strips YIKES!! We all made it, a bit frazzled and more experienced as road warriors extraordinaire! Another friend dinner tonight with Smitty and Kim from Indiana- great fun to see them and share ‘Chicago style pizza’
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