Tuesday:  278.6 lbs., burned 2499, consumed 1393.
Wednesday:  No weigh-in, burned 2322, consumed 1216.
Yesterday:  No weigh-in, burned 4432, consumed 1359.
Today:  No weigh-in, Activities:  Bicycled 13+ miles.

Ohhhhh man!  I am tired (after all it’s after 2am) but still SO pumped!  The last two days have been real slices of heaven - which is a weird thing to say, given what we did, lol.

Wednesday afternoon we left.  I announced to the staff at my work that I was taking the rest of the week off as vacation time and … we left.  We put Hubby’s and Son’s bikes on the carrier on the back of the Jeep and we drove away, unsure of our actual eventual destination.  I had printed some stuff I found on the web but we hadn’t actually made any solid decisions about where we were going.  We just knew these things to be true:

1.)  We needed at least a couple days to get away.
2.)  We wanted to ride our bikes somewhere other than in our own neighborhood.
3.)  I needed a new bicycle.

In our quest for my replacement bike, I had come across only one 26″ model that I could actually maybe ride without killing myself.  I still couldn’t actually reach the ground beneath me, but it was close, or at least closer than all the other models I’d seen.  So on our way out of town, we stopped and bought the bike.  It joined the other two bikes on the carrier as we headed east out of town, out of the county we live in.

We didn’t stop going east until we got to the other end of the adjoining county, in a small town about 50-some miles from home.  There were several parks in that general area that had bike trails but only two that had paved ones.  So we stayed that first night at a hotel not too far away, with the expectation that we’d ride the next day.

And we did.  Yesterday we picked one of the parks and rode its paved bike trail loop.  The sites I’d found online hadn’t told how long the paved bike trail was.  As we passed between pines and palmettos and breathed in the scent of a forest in bloom, we were amazed at the tranquility and peace.  It was beyond beautiful, the scenery along this lovely trail.  And we soon found out that the trail itself was only 1.5 miles long.  A rather short, but lovely route.

At my suggestion, we ventured out onto the shoulder of the highway to explore.  Why load the bikes back up onto the carrier when we can just ride our bikes?  So we explored the surrounding area, and logged over 10 miles.

It was so good, we didn’t want to go home.  So we found a nice hotel and settled in to stay another night.  After dinner we spent time in both the pool and the jacuzzi, and it was so great that this morning we decided to do it again (the pool and jacuzzi, lol).   We had lunch and then rode our bikes around the surrounding area, then loaded them up and headed out to the other park that had paved bike trails.  This one, though, did tell on their website how long their trails were.  The loop itself is 7 miles long and then there’s a 2-mile leg that goes to another highway/entrance. 

We clocked another 13+ miles today!  :oD

So yeah, I’m exhausted, but in a really good way!  We burned some major calories over the past two days!  Yeeeeeahhhhh!!

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