Liz and I decided to take our route through Ashfield and Conway again this morning. Wow--the ride to Ashfield is challenging! When we take our normal 11 mile ride toward Conway and back, it takes us a little over an hour, and has plenty of hills. The 17 mile ride to Ashfield took us 2 1/2 hours.
I've never spent any time in Ashfield--it's really a nice town. It's the kind of town where people are really friendly and start conversations with strangers. We went to Elmer's for breakfast. The waitress sat down to talk to us for a few minutes, and we got into a long conversation with the woman at the next table, who Liz recognized from the dog park. We had conversations with a few other people as well. And on top of the friendliness, Elmer's had gluten-free pancakes-- Liz was in heaven. I tried a bit and they were delicious. They're starting to get the gluten-free thing down.
After breakfast, I was thinking about how the way home from Ashfield had been too easy last time. Seven miles downhill into Conway, then a few uphills, but mainly downhill from there. So I pulled out the map and saw a route we could take that would add some miles to our trip. Liz was up for it. It accomplished our goal in that the trip to Conway was rolling instead of all downhill. Also, we added some distance--we cycled 40 miles! That feels like an accomplishment.
We enjoyed the whole thing so much, we decided that we should bike to Elmer's for breakfast every weekend. Now we are collapsed on chairs, resting our aching knees, hoping that the other one will regain enough strength to go make us smoothies.
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