Adventures in riding.

As ya'll know, I've been watching my diet and riding my bike to lose weight.  A few days ago I went riding with a jogger friend of my wife.  She was going to do a 8 mile cross country trek while I did a mile or two and then hung out at the park with my youngest.  I did about half a mile and then I thought:  "Why not, let's try this cross country thing, my bike is a mountain bike after all.  The trailer with the kid can handle it.  If it's too much I can turn back."

Eight miles later I'm thinking:  "How much fun would this be if I was in better condition and I wasn't dragging an extra 60 pounds or so with this trailer and kid?"  We saw some interesting things on the ride.  Cows; they thought they were going to be fed.  They would moo and follow me.  We didn't have any hay so they didn't get fed by us.  I saw someone fishing at some lake near us.  Seeing people fish is nothing new but he was using a net to fish with.  That's something I haven't seen.

Saw a dog skeleton, that was a bit on the odd side.  Seeing BOB here was a real shocker.  I was going to put my size 11 shoe next to him but since he was about 80% of my shoe I wasn't going to risk it.  I named him BOB because it's short for Big Old Bug.  For those of you not real sure about shoe sizes, this centipede was about 8-9" in length.  I was staying away from any bug bigger than my gun or pocketknife.  Pretty simple rule to have in your life.  Yes, my legs were sore for two days.