4 Seconds A Day: June 2016

Biking With Kids

4 Seconds A Day: May 2016

Bicycle Buddies

Avon To Asbury To Avon

The main reason to hit the beach was actually the boardwalk and taking our bikes on it. We can ride til 10am so we had plenty of time to trail from Avon to Asbury and back, with a few detours in between.

we don't travel lite

but make up for it in style

Yuula's first gang sign

they barely escaped the naked octo-flapper

a little sidewalk bistro called Yvonne's summoned us off the trail

Yuula and Laura split this omelet and I had the French toast

when we got back to the car the temperature was 104

Love riding the boardwalk. Thinking about repeating in September when it's a little less 104.

Clearing Way For Me Birthday

Tomorrow's my birthday. I'll be 32. 11,688 days. 280,512 hours. That doesn't seem like very many hours. Maybe I did the math wrong. Today I tried to get most of the yard work out of the way, and tho I mowed the lawn, tore down the pool, gathered all the lumber from around the house, started cutting up the down trees, cleaned half the shed, pulled that toilet out of the forest and cleaned the trash from the woods after that savage bear attack on our garbage cans last fall, I'm still not done. I couldn't get the weedwacker going again. I think that thing has it in for me. Watch, Laura will come home tonight and start it right up. Bastard thing. But the idea is to rest as much as I can tomorrow on my birthday, but I think we'll end up doing some early morning yardwork. That is if either of us see early morning. I have a feeling she'll sleep in and on a Sunday, especially on Sunday that just so happens to be the celebration of your 32nd year of life, I think I'll manage to stay under cover for as long as I can without getting stir crazy.

But I figured out what I want today for my birthday. A bike. Not a ten speed or anything. One like up there^, but maybe in green. So depending on what time you read this, you might not have much time before the bike stores close tonight, and it's in bad taste to buy someone a birthday gift on their birthday so why are you still reading this and not in your car right now? Anyhow, I took a bike ride this morning, on break from cleaning out the shed, and it was lovely. I felt like I was 7 years old riding the campground gravel roads, my legs were burning but I kept pedaling. I saw two cats, three deer and two old folks working on their garden out front. It put in me in such a good mood, that is, until I got home, or almost home and ran into my wife, who I had left in bed a short 20 minutes before. She was in the car, dressed and off to work. She thought she had to close but instead she was already late.

Eyes: A clean yard
Ears: MGMT - Song For Dan Treacy

Biking The Boardwalk

"What a beautiful day for a bike ride!" were the first words out of my mouth this morning. I rustled Francis so we could get an early start and after a brief wrestling match while attaching a bike rack to the back of our car, we were off for the boardwalk.

Our starting point was Avon By The Sea, and from there we headed north, all the way past Bradley Beach, Ocean Grove, Asbury Park, Loch Arbour, Allenhurst, and into Deal. We toured sideroads with some amazing looking houses, even if we didn't feel entirely welcome, and stopped outside the Asbury Convention Hall for sandwiches. We headed back to Avon but didn't feel like stopping, so we went south. Thru Belmar, Lake Como and into Spring Lake Heights. Now we were starting to feel it. By the time we got back to the car again we had rode about 16 miles. Not bad for a beautiful day.






What does Fran have to say about today's adventure?...

"My butt hurts"

Also, since we both got extreme sunburns and needed mass quantities of aloe she adds...

"I'm having an aloe-body experience"

That's a bit of a stretch hun, but I'll give it to you.