Trip Thoughts & Home

We had a great time despite not reaching any peaks on our hikes.  A return visit is a must although the road cycling scene is not very vibrant.  Mountain biking is but not road.  There are many awesome climbs but the roads are quite narrow, few bike lanes so not an ideal multi-month destination during the summer.  Our search continues.  Maybe Montana when we visit there in a few weeks.

Our flight back included this view of the Catalinas.  Table, Kimball, Bighorn peaks are all in there.  I've had some twinges of interest in hiking and eventually I'll return to it but I'm still motivated to make very small, incremental gains with my cycling fitness. 

We've returned home and I was anxious to build a planter so bought cedar boards, sawed them to length and began assembling them.  And yes, that is a glass of wine on the platform.

We carried the finished planter to a wall and filled it with 4 large bags of soil.  Then, of course....

...began planting.  Given the time of the year, one of the few plants that should be started, surprisingly are watermelons.  So here we go.