This is a paved path system that's centered around the Red River in both Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota. 2 dedicated pedestrian/bike bridges allow you access across the river. Yesterday we rode 26.5 miles on these trails and in town. We ate lunch at Whiteys Wonderbar on the East side of the river.
It was pretty hot and windy. Last night I heard something on the TV about a record high there. 90some degrees.









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We're off on a road trip to add a couple of states to our "states we've ridden in" list.
Yesterday we rode in Nebraska for the first time riding the MoPac East Trail. It's a 22 mile crushed limestone rail-to-trail that goes between Lincoln and Wabash Nebraska. We rode from Lincoln out and back and got in 45 miles. The trail and Lincoln were both better than we expected. The trail has a nice surface, was mostly tree lined and made a lot of turns. Nothing worse than a straight, wide-open trail. Along the trail we spotted deer, many rabbits & squirrels, turkey and many birds including blue birds. The town of Lincoln appeared to be a bicycle town. A lot of bikes and paths all over the city.




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Below are just a few of the many bike art sculptures that are part of Lincoln's 1993 Tour De Lincoln art project.

I made a couple of changes to the #14 Huffy Byke. Before pic here .



I swapped out the aluminum 24" wheels (24x3 tires) for red 26" wheels (26x2.125 tires). Also painted and did a LED conversion to the headlight to match the bike.

One of my Mother's motivators to get on a bike again was so she could ride with her Great-Grand-Kids. After practicing a couple times over the past couple weeks today was the day. Mom, Dad, myself and the 3 kids all rode to McDonald's for supper. The ride was pretty uneventful which was a relief and once home we rewarded ourselves with Twinkies.





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Ok so maybe every ride is a "cracker ride" for me but this one even more so. I was given a simple task to go to the store just a few blocks away for crackers but I took a wrong turn as soon as I left my driveway.


Edit: I was mistaken about the 1 room schoolhouse. My Dad informed me it was 2 rooms with 2 teachers. 4 grades in each class.

Mom, Dad and I went for a short ride this morning. For lunch I went and got a couple hot dogs/sausages at a new restaurant in town that sells "Steamin Weenies". With my recently installed front basket loaded with wieners, chips and drink I went to the park to eat. After my lunch l went for a ride outside of town. This evening I took another bike out that I recently made changes to (more on that later) and rode the local loop.

After arriving home from McDonalds and considering my poor lunch choice, it was decided we should have took the long way home. So we retraced our tracks and did just that.

We attended a party last night at a friends house. Here are a few crappy cell phone pics of just some of his many bikes.