Heather and I headed to McCook for the Memorial day weekend. We packed our bikes, and really didn’t have any plans other than to enjoy being away from Omaha for a few days.
The first interesting thing to occur was that the bike rack didn’t work as well as I had hoped on the back of Heather’s rather compact car. We drove a few miles before deciding that things weren’t looking quite right in the rear view mirror, and then I got to spend my first hot sweaty frustrating minutes on the side of the road fussing with cargo tied to the car as a married man. I hope those minutes will be members of a very small list, but I suppose time will tell. đŸ™‚
I discovered the rack actually worked ok on the car, I just had to place it differently than I was planning to. Once that was done we had an uneventful drive to McCook.
Saturday we had a lazy morning that eventually turned in to doing some yard work with my parents. At the risk of sounding crazy, both Heather and I rather enjoyed doing it, as it is so much of a change of pace… plus we don’t have a yard. Heather got to help my mom prep for, and eventually plant flowers, and Dad and I cut sod out of the location of the new deck, and used it to fill some voids elsewhere in the lawn.
That evening we took the bikes out:
McCook is a really nice place to ride bikes! They have fewer hills than we have in our neck of Omaha, and less traffic besides. It helped that we had basically the perfect weather I suppose.
I will leave off here, and pick up the weekend soon!
-Jordan
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