Bike Ride to the Beach

Today was a beautiful day! It was probably about 60 degrees outside and perfectly clear. And the people around here say "wow - I can't believe you came in the winter - how are you holding up?". Yeah. I wish we had days like this in our winters! Yesterday though had definitely been one of the colder days - maybe around 40 or 45 degrees but it was still sunny and clear outside. What a life.

Anyways - I decided it was a good day to try a bike ride south on the River Torrens path. Sandra and I had biked north last time so it was time to see where the other way went. I started out the bike ride from Tyler's apt. Even though I've been biking quite a few times now, I still have to stop and think about what side of the road I am supposed to be on. haha! In a car, its easy to just follow traffic but its not as obvious on a bike.

The total length of the path ended up being about 20 km one way (so about 12 miles). It ended at the beach which was pretty cool. It actually didn't even really end there - I could have gone either direction down the beach. I'll have to save that for a bike ride next week. It was fun though. The river was beautiful the full length. At the very end, there was a sort of horse farm lining both sides for the last mile before I got to the ocean. Kinda odd placement of a horse farm...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to stay at the beach too long - the planning of our NZ trip is taking up more time than I thought. And we're leaving early tomorrow morning - eek! Kiwis here we come! :)

(As a side note, the first pic has the horse farm and the second pic has the "dunes" at the beach - as they were described - obviously they haven't been to Indiana!)