Sunday morning we got up early and went for a road bike ride. The main north-south road in LBL is called The Trace (French for "path" since it's an old Indian path). Although it has good road surface for riding, we decided to do more of the secondary roads to avoid traffic - although traffic seemed minimal, it still offered no shoulder and high speed traffic on The Trace.
We rode 29 miles by looping together Mulberry Flat Rd, The Trace, Silver Trail Rd, and then doing all paved spur roads we could find -- to the Nature Station, to Honker Bay, to Energy Dam, and so on. A great ride. Hilly and curvy thru a forested area. We thought our biggest dangers were keeping an eye out for the suicidal squirrels, the flocks of wild turkeys (which were HUGE by the way), and the multitude of deer which bounded across the roads. But then Andy came down a hill and around a bend only to find that our paved road suddenly turned to gravel. I saw him limping next to his bike and his frantic waving and was able to stop in time. No blood, no injuries, just another flat tire. Whew.
The area we were riding in had signs about Eagle nesting, but we didn't see any unfortunately. Stopping to look does kind of ruin your average speed, but riding bikes is a great way to explore versus being sealed up in a car.
We're hoping to get either another road bike ride in during our stay, or get our mountain bikes out on some of these trails. But the heat index hit 101 degrees one day, so if we can't do it first thing in the morning or near sunset, we'll be out of luck.
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