We now have the bikes to go on rides as a family and have every keep up.
So we went on our family bike ride to a park just up the street. It is a new park so the information on the trails is slim. So we just decided to take one and enjoy a ride. It was an easy ride.....or so we thought. As we started out the trailer stayed on the trail just fine, even if it was a bit rocky. But as we kept going, the trail kept getting smaller. Half way through the loop ( or so we thought ) it was only wide enough for one bike, we were just going to keep going instead of turning around. It wasn't so bad, yet.
After we passed the first small boulders and large rocks known as the rock gardens we weren't sure we wanted to keep going on the same trail but didn't want to turn around to go past them again so we just kept going. Surely it wouldn't get worse. But it did, and each time we would say to ourselves, we are more than half way there, we don't want to go over that agin, and it can't be worse. Funny, it did get worse. It got to the point the kids were bouncing all over the trailer, and thankfully laughing, every once in a while one side of the trailer dropping 3 to 6 inches off a rock as we struggled to get past the next rock garden. The very last part we ended up getting off our bikes, leaving one behind as we pulled the bike and kids up about a 35 degree hill. The bike being so heavy in the back that the front tire came off the the ground and it was all I could do to keep it going up the hill instead of rolling back down on Andrew. Our trailer ended up with two flat tires and the bolts holding the bike seat on were gone when we got back to the car.
It was so fun! Crazy I know but it really was an adventure.
The set up
Every once in a while, Becky had to turn around and say hello to everyone.
In one of the good parts of the trail. Even though it wasn't wide enough
A video of one of the rock gardens we went though.
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