Arizona Update & Wild Animals

As expected, Monday was a day of furniture and decor shopping and it is all a blur of stores to me.  To get out of this experience is similar to ordering all the fishes to jump out of the ocean...it ain't gonna happen.  Mercifully, the day ended, furniture delivered, pictures hung and so Tuesday I hiked up to see the Remero Pools and took great images but I can't yet put them up, but will soon.  Oh yeah, bike arrived so I put it together and thus on Wednesday, did a shakedown cruise to Oracle, 21 miles north via Oracle road/Route 77.  Gentle grade all the way out of the valley so after 21 miles had 1800' of climbing.  Nothing steep just one long ramp after another after another and kind of boring but brilliant sunshine prior to pulling into the Circle K gas station/market.  Sought shelter at the side of the building while chugging a Monster and called Steve O to find out if anyone rode Tuesday.  Sounds like not.  I noticed lots of cyclists going south on 77 but none going north so probably I got started too late and everyone had already completed the main part of the ride and headed back to Oro Valley or Tucson.  Have heard a lot about Mount Lemmon so will do that tomorrow or Friday.  That's a 26 mile climb with an average of 5% grade and described as an epic ride.  Temp at the top is 20 degrees cooler than the valley but still around 70 up there.

Wow, lots going on back home.  Saw the wild animal escape in Zanesville and that is on the Blue Jay route off Kopchalk Road we take after stopping at the market on route 40.  Heard a couple of people were stabbed trying to prevent car break-ins in Pataskala and then the murder/suicide off I think York Road.  This has our son freaking out a little.  Guess not having mom and dad around (he calls us creepers) isn't the panacea he thought.  More to come tomorrow and h