{"id":4402,"date":"2010-09-11T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2010-09-11T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T21:35:56","slug":"the-trail-trash-ride-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"The Trail Trash Ride Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I&#8217;ve photoblogged a bicycle ride.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s do something about that, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>We have our own bicycling group, the Spanish Trail Trash.\u00a0 This morning&#8217;s ride consisted of the Trail Trash core: Mary Anne (our leader), Darrell, Donna, and me.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Avenue, at least the five miles between River and the U of A, is probably Tucson&#8217;s most bicycle-friendly street, with wide well-maintained bike lanes and curb-mounted stoplight buttons.\u00a0 The U of A itself is set up for bicyclists, as are the neighborhoods around it, and if it weren&#8217;t for the bicycle-eating trolley tracks, the University Blvd\/4th Ave district &#8212; Tucson&#8217;s Haight-Ashbury &#8212; would be the most bicycle-friendly area of all.\u00a0 The tracks got Mary Anne about a year ago, and we&#8217;ve all been super-cautious about them ever since.<\/p>\n<p>But I said this would be a photoblogging entry, and you&#8217;re probably ready to see the evidence.\u00a0 Here goes (click on the thumbnails to see larger versions):<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/s747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/?action=view&#038;current=09-11-10_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/09-11-10_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"09-11-10_1\" width=200 height=150><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/s747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/?action=view&#038;current=09-11-10_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/09-11-10_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"09-11-10_1 detail\" width=200 height=150><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/s747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/?action=view&#038;current=09-11-10_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/09-11-10_3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Darrell,Mary Anne,Donna\" width=200 height=150><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/s747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/?action=view&#038;current=09-11-10_4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i747.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx120\/flyboog\/Bicycling\/09-11-10_4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Paul,Darrell,Donna\" width=200 height=150><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nTop row, left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Something new: a coffee vendor has set up shop on the Rillito bike trail<\/li>\n<li>Detail: he calls himself the &#8220;Peddler on the Path&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bottom row, left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trail trash on 4th Ave: Darrell, Mary Anne, Donna<\/li>\n<li>Ditto: Paul, Darrell, Donna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I&#8217;ve photoblogged a bicycle ride.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s do something about that, shall we? 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