It's been almost a week since my last post. It isn't because I'm lazy, although I am lazy, it's because I've been away from the computer.
Last Wednesday started out innocent enough. I got up at 10 am because I had a couple of appointments at the community college that I am going to in the fall. One was for counseling and one was for assessment testing. I decided that I would get some extra miles in by riding my bike to the school for my appointments. It wasn't too bad but it was the first time I had ridden this summer where the temperature had hit over 95 degrees. At the time I thought it would be a possible topic for my next blog but that obviously wasn't the case. Anyway, I got to the school and I just had to take a picture of the bike in the rack since it's not often my commuter is the best bike around:
I met with my counselor and found out that I would have to take my assessment test and then come back again at 8:00 AM with my assessment results in order with help in scheduling classes for the fall. I had an hour and a half to kill before the Assessment so I rode over to Barnes and Noble at the mall that is right down the street and picked up a copy of Bicycle Times and had a chicken teriyaki bowl. I went back, took my assessment and rode home in time to get ready to go to work! I had hoped to take a little nap before leaving for work but that didn't happen since the assessment testing lasted longer than I had planned.
Since it was Ride-your-bike-to-work-week I was planning on riding my bike to work every day last week. I did manage to get on the bike to commute to work on Wednesday (which is my Monday). I put in my 10 hours on Graveyard and left at approximately 6:30 AM to ride the 18 miles from my work to the school so I could make my drop in appointment at 8:00 AM. I made my appointment and then rode over to the hospital to spend some time with my mom who started her chemotherapy treatments on Thursday (her third time). Then it was time to go home and get some sleep. Which I finally did at 12:30PM.
Wednesday and Thursday summary: 26 1/2 hours, 55 cycling miles, 10 hours of work, 3 hours of school prep, and 0 hours of sleep. But I did get a cool shot of a hot air balloon getting ready to take off while I was leaving work:
It's there in the background. It looked a lot closer before I took the picture!
Thursday I woke up too late to be able to ride to work, so I had to take the van to work. My boss emailed me a story about bike-to-work day and I said that I would be definitely riding to work on Friday which is the official bike-to-work day. I had to since I have a face book group about Bike-to-work day! After that is when all the real fun began.
Not too long after I got to work my fiance texted me to tell me that her daughter, from a prior marriage, was in the ER in Northern Ca. They didn't know exactly what was wrong yet but were running tests and were pretty sure it was her appendix. After a few hours of no news we did find out that she was going to be having her appendix removed so we would be on our way up north after I got off work.
We took a rental, the money we save in gas over our van pays for the rental and I don't have to put any more miles on it, loaded up the kids and we were able to get to the Bay Area around 5:30 PM. Everything went OK with the surgery and we were able to bring her home and spend some time with her while she got comfortable. We did get to visit with my Fiance's sister and mom before some sick members of our family forced us home.
We got home around 1:00 AM and the rental place at the Palm Springs Airport closed at midnight. So in the morning I got up and dropped the car off and rode the bike the 11 miles from the airport to my grandmas house where we left our van. I am so grateful for the bike. If I didn't ride it to drop the car off, I would have had to get 2 sick kids and a sick fiance up at 6AM and drive to the van with them and then have them follow me to the airport and then home. Not to mention the 30 or so miles of gas I saved on that trip!
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