Wow, looks and sounds wonderful! What a great experience. :)

Good to hear from you! Looks like a great trip.

Hi trailrunner! Glad you are enjoying yourself. Looks lovely!

What a wonderful bike adventure. Hope the rest of your trip is just as successful.

You all were just on my mind yesterday!! Love the bikeventure!!

Gorgeous scenery and what looks to be perfect weather—- the right recipe for a great trip. Enjoy yourselves on this latest adventure and check in with more of your beautiful photos, please!

Sounds like a great trip and such a lovely change of scenery from (also beautiful) Virginia!

I was hoping this was Trailrunner/C! Have a great trip, sharing photos along the way.

Thank you. We are having a great time. A really active community . Every age on the bicycle paths and all types of bicycles. The 3 arboretums are totally different. The largest covers 100 acres! There is an aquarium and zoo and museum . We were there for hours . The other two are also incredible and have so much interesting information as you stroll on desert paths . Tohono Chul is our favorite , they have water features , a riparian habitat , which is different and adds a wonderful respite area. The Mozart opera La Finta Giardiniera will be there in the afternoon of the 22nd and we are very excited to see it. We have seen Ladysmith at the Rialto Theater and they were incredible and standing ovations were the order of the evening. Their inclusive life affirming message was very well received. We also saw Branford Marsalis and his trio at the Fox Theater, beautifully restored and we had front row seats for each.

We will be out and about so will snap a few more pictures. I take pictures with my eyes and senses and as I have gotten older I relish the freedom this gives me.

Thank you for sharing our adventure. Some here may remember DH is a jazz pianist. He has played professionally since he was a teen in 1963 - present. When we are home he plays every Saturday night at a restaurant /bar venue. When we travel this is how he spends his spare time——piano , clarinet a hobby that is in house only and his newest an Akai Ewi.

Luckily its a big house! ❤️🙏

I'm glad you and DH are well! Thoroughly enjoyed your update.

Always a treat to hear from you and the photos are a bonus!

Happy Trails to you!

What a wonderful trip. I love hearing about your adventures.

Love following you vicariously on this amazing trip. Thank you.

What a great adventure and wonderful opportunity to get to know a city in the process. Love following along with you and your DH.

Thank you for the kind supportive messages. We went to Cape Breton , Nova Scotia in August 2024 with our bikes. We were 3 1/2 days on the road for that trip and . I planned it again so that we had greenways in Easton PA and Portland ME no biking in St John New Brunswick we did a lot of walking . We had a house for a week on the Cape on a 200 ft bluff overlooking Chimney Rock and in the distance PEI , where we cycled with friends a few years ago. Lots of cycling and hiking. We are headed to NOTL Canada in July with our son and DIL and GS . Her parents have lived there since retiring and moving from Germany. She has Swiss, German and Canadian citizenship. We are taking our bikes and have a farmhouse VRBO adjacent to peach groves and a winery. I don't foresee biking very far LOL !!

Grands will be with us again in June for " Camp Dammie and Tappy " they are 5 and 7 now. They are acually signed up for camps in VA as they are SO much more affordable in VA then Alpharetta GA and they love being with us as much as we love them. They get to play with their cousin although now that he's a " teen" that might be minimal. We shall see.

That's an update. We will be doing something in October but TBD.

Again y'all are very generous to put up with my mostly " off again" participation here. Lots of reasons . I'll post when I am able . c

We spent 15 years at the RV park on Pantano and Broadway wonderful area, food and city Be sure to make it to Sabino Canyon and Tubac!

Also you can bike to Mount Lemmon amazing views

jr… DH doesn’t have his Trek eBike and at almost 78 and given his rapidly failing eyesight that climb isn’t on his radar. I would love to do it ! We will compromise as we do the Julian wash tomorrow and then the music venue at the Congress Hotel at 6:30 pm.

We will do the etrolley at Sabino next week also. We pass your former digs quite often! Sunday is the farmers market and riding up there on the River trail.

We are in Civano. It’s so beautiful and the homes with their incredible gardens and beautiful stucco designs are so lovely. We couldn’t take the weather the rest of the year but are loving March!

So glad you posted thank you! Where are uou now and why did you leave Tucson?

Sounds like you are making the most of your time The bike trails are amazing It is a beautiful drive up Mt Lemmon also and try lunch at the Iron Door when you reach the summit We frequented that farmers market! loved enjoying fresh produce in the middle of winter We were snowbirds ready to explore other places, but we miss Tucson for sure After 15 winters it felt like home Enjoy the rest of your visit

Trail-c! Like others i was also hoping and guessing this must be you . It’s been too long…Soo glad to learn all is well and you two are STILL riding. Wonderful !!!

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That is a fantstic trail! Wide and paved, just perfect! We bicycle several times a week on different parts of the Pinellas Trail, an old paved rail trail in and around the St. Petersburg area. Love it!

@jb1586 we have biked for years on every trail in the Panhandle and down the Gulf through Sarasota and Venice Beach. And we did a loop from Ft Meyers to St Augustine and back across to Ft Meyers . And Key West up through FL to Bar Harbor ME! And St Augustine up and along parallel to 90to San Diego.

The Johnny Cash song ” I ’ve been everywhere” lol

What a wonderful adventure, C. It’s been years since I have been to Tucson, and it sounds like I need to go back. Thanks for sharing.

Spent the morning at the farmer’s market . Incredible food and music .

Katchapurian pastry filled with spinach and cheese! yum!

That looks delicious!

@Jilly it was. my phone died will get more pics next Sunday. Incredible artisans. i got 2 kinds of honey, mesquite and desert wild flower. Bumble berry jam and Jalapeno Raspberry. we had fabulous french croissants from this amazing pattiserie . oh and two soups that we tried first spicy tomato and lemon lentil —- frozen in neat qt bags. Also pastries from a Maltese artisan baker.the music was a trio blues— guitar bass and fiddle. everything perfect weather and coffee exceptional. We rode 22 miles yesterday and going hiking tomorrow on Mt Lemon and riding the sky car. Have music venues Thurs Fri and Sat nights! busy week

An amazing adventure!

Drove up Mt Lemmon then hikedup to the Summit. Lots of snow. Engaged DH in a snowball fight.. I won! ❤️❤️ he’s mine now ❤️❤️

Mine too, trail. Mine too.

But it’s a little bit lighter seeing you post again. Welcome back. You’ve been missed.❤️

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