It has been a while since I’ve photoblogged a bicycle ride. Let’s do something about that, shall we?
We have our own bicycling group, the Spanish Trail Trash. This morning’s ride consisted of the Trail Trash core: Mary Anne (our leader), Darrell, Donna, and me. We met by the Rillito bike path at Campbell and River, rode south on Mountain to the University of Arizona, over to 4th Avenue (where we stopped for coffee), then back north to the start, 12 miles in all.
Mountain Avenue, at least the five miles between River and the U of A, is probably Tucson’s most bicycle-friendly street, with wide well-maintained bike lanes and curb-mounted stoplight buttons. The U of A itself is set up for bicyclists, as are the neighborhoods around it, and if it weren’t for the bicycle-eating trolley tracks, the University Blvd/4th Ave district — Tucson’s Haight-Ashbury — would be the most bicycle-friendly area of all. The tracks got Mary Anne about a year ago, and we’ve all been super-cautious about them ever since.
But I said this would be a photoblogging entry, and you’re probably ready to see the evidence. Here goes (click on the thumbnails to see larger versions):
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Top row, left to right:
- Something new: a coffee vendor has set up shop on the Rillito bike trail
- Detail: he calls himself the “Peddler on the Path”
Bottom row, left to right:
- Trail trash on 4th Ave: Darrell, Mary Anne, Donna
- Ditto: Paul, Darrell, Donna