The Weekend Report (it's long....you've been warned).

Ok, so Friday evening kicked off with a windy (read headwind) ride up Mill St. We were headed (wifey and I) to Food Truck Friday at Idlewild.  Mill St. is not a particularly nice place to ride, even though there are bike lanes....but it is the most direct way to town from the far side of the airport.  In a rather rare event, we actually ran into another cyclist (so I got a chance to draft for a few blocks!).

Mill St. is not a good place to be fumbling with a camera so excuse the poor photos.  I just had to get a picture with another rider on Mill!

Ok, proof that he's back there.  Yes, I cut off his head.

Ok, see....he's back there and very blurry.

So when we finally got to Food Truck Friday it was in full swing.  We found good food and good beer to start things off.  In fact some of the vegetarian food was fa nominal!  

After the good food and music and visiting with multiple fiends, it was off to the Preacher's house for a final round of drinks.  And I mean final.....as the Preacher and his wifey are sadly (for us) and happily (for them) moving off to Bend, Or.  Apparently Reno's brewery density is far to low for them.....or they are sick of listening to me ramble on endlessly!  Either way with most of their worldly possessions in storage, we attacked what was left (his kegerator) with reckless abandon!

The Preacher giving me "last rites"!

The Preacher's last sermon!?  No more riding bikes in the house....it's sold.  You must ride outside!

 So, (shockingly) motivation the following morning was low.....we were supposed to go for a nice moderate bike ride.  This ended up being pushed to Sunday, where we did 34 miles around Washoe Lake.  Surprisingly, I've never done this ride.  We chose to start it out of the Summit Mall parking lot following a route like this:

It's a great ride with a lot of opportunities to pause including, the Chocolate Nugget, Bower's Mansion park, multiple Washoe lake parks, and smattering of Washoe bars and cafe's.  I'll let the pics do the talking on this one.

Proper signage for what used to be a busy section of 395.  Now a nice ride with light traffic and wide shoulders!

Most traffic seems to merge over, offering even nicer riding!

Views of Mt. Rose, the new bridge, and some "gorgeous" wires.

The Chocolate Nugget.  They have all the sugar you need and ice cream for those extra hot days!

Bower's Mansion (and park).

Washoe Lake.

One of several parks / campgrounds around Washoe.

So that was our weekend ride.  We followed it up with some errands like hitting Whole foods on the way home.  And just to top off the great morning with some classic Reno oddity....here is a picture of a truck with an anvil mounted to a swing away rack!

Yes, an Anvil.....like Willey Coyote and the Road Runner "Anvil".  I'm sure he uses it to shoe horses or some unique purpose, but it still tops the list of things you only see in Reno!