Going home on a warm Spring day

[Pedro]

Rode from beautiful and cool seaside Ericeira to my home today, where it's hot and summery. The plan was to ride straight over since I have work to do, but in the middle of it got distracted by a short dirt road near the Montejunto area and went to see some more windmills.

Had a bit of a moment going uphill in a narrow rocky dirt road where things got a little too uphill and bumpy for my taste, front wheel briefly in the air in first gear had me wondering about how smart it was doing that in a fully fueled 30 liter GS with luggage on  , so I stopped for a breather. As is the norm, looking at the picture of the way in it looks like you can drive a Ferrari up there ...

 

619km on the range indicator:

 

My home somewhere in the distance there, behind the bike:

 

A km or so after and got back to tarmac, in all it was only about 3 or 4 km offroad but were quite interesting. Temperatures increased as I got over the hills going inland and suddenly it's 28º

 

Stopped by the supermarket for fruit and improvised a topcase

Got home and made sure my peaches are doing well in the sunshine:

And so are the almonds:

And that the little birds have finished furnishing their home for this year and have hatched already, you can't really see them though:

 

[XTreme]

Superb Pedro......I wouldn't have gone anywhere near that trail.

[boboneleg]

Superb Pedro, it's always more difficult than it looks on a photo.  Well done for taking the 'scenic route'