I absolutely love riding my bike

It's not a particularly fancy bike, it is a hybrid mountain bike with 21 speeds that I picked up at Sam's Club.  It gets almost daily use and quite a bit of that is rough treatment, because I like to take it off the road and onto logging trails.

I leave my house and ride a hundred yards up hill to a country road that has little traffic.  There are trails off of this road as soon as half a mile, but I ride up to three miles to get to the trail in the middle picture.  The trail gradually narrows and you have to watch your head

for leaning trees.  After the Ice Storm of '98 I spent that summer and fall cleaning brush along these trails and was lucky enough that someone else came along with a chainsaw and helped to clean them up too.  This summer of '00 it is wet and so there are numerous wet areas to ride through.......yahoo!

That's a deer print, I see lots of deer and raccoon prints, I once came across a very large bear print and I immediately began talking to it, just in case it was still nearby so that it wouldn't be startled by me.

My digital camera (Olympus D-340R) takes wonderful pictures as well as having a timer so that I can shoot myself once in a while.

This is my favorite place to ride and I try to go every single morning as early as I can and I generally ride for an hour to an hour and a half.  What a great way to start the day!