Phoenix, AZ — Today the three of us met up with Jim, whom we met on Sunday’s century. Jim lives way up north in Cave Creek. He showed us a ride that meandered through the Carefree highlands and then over to Bartlett Lake and back. Heather and I had done the Bartlett Lake section before, but not long climb that leads up to it. We kept the pace pretty easy the whole time. Ted and I would sometimes go ahead while Heather and Jim took a more leisurely pace and chatted. The section of road going to the lake was awesome with hardly any traffic. This was nice as we could ride side-by-side and talk. There were a good amount of hills, but we kept the effort level down keeping the wattage around 250.

Once we got back to Carefree, Jim graciously invited us to dinner and we had some really yummy food. We still had to ride 5 miles back to the house, but it was mostly downhill. We got back as the sun was getting low and Heather and Ted picked some grapefruit from Jim’s trees. Seems that everyone has citrus fruit tree in Phoenix. Heather is a big fruit lover so she was in heaven!