Monday

ok, i'm totally plaguerizing here, this is w's post to one of the mailing lists we are on. but it captures it totally and succinctly. so sue me. ;-)

"this morning, i asked MP if she wanted to take quick jaunt to
breakfast. she suggested nico's, a great little hole-in-the-wall
mexican place right across the street from micky-d's. we took our ADV
bikes, & as we enjoyed our breakfast burritos, i couldn't help but
comment on the mcdonald's across the street: "why would anybody eat
there when this place is right across the street?"

after finishing our food, i asked her if she wanted to visit the casa
grande military reservation. she quickly agreed, & off we went. we
ended up taking quite a roundabout way through the reservation:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=4426515937381981633,32.879592,-111.734410%3B7172395427106393449,32.828683,-111.727124&saddr=1265+W+Del+Monte+Dr,+Casa+Grande,+AZ+85222&daddr=1226+E+Florence+Blvd+%23+11,+Casa+Grande,+AZ+85222+(Nico's+Mexican+Food)+to:32.829242,-111.727438&mra=dme&mrcr=1&mrsp=2&sz=17&sll=32.82825,-111.723318&sspn=0.007798,0.009516&ie=UTF8&ll=32.829927,-111.723361&spn=0.015596,0.019033&t=k&z=16

or

http://tinyurl.com/6eh6kp

from the endpoint depicted on the above map, we headed due east, first
on the upper portion until we came to an excessively steep & rocky
downhill section, then backtracking to the lower section & again
heading east. what a workout; we definitely burned off those
breakfast burritos! from there we headed to the kids' house, but they
weren't home so we headed out across the desert, taking a mostly dirt
route all the way home...

i sure like living in a small down where we can still do that. :-)"