I recently reached yet another milestone in my bicycle adventures!
Lisa, met me, Gary, and Bill at the Foothills Trail in Puyallup for what was intended to be a thirty mile ride through the Orting Valley and back. This is the same trail that was the focal point for part of the earlier "Procrastination, Milestones, and Rogue Waves" blog I posted a while back.
It is a wonderful paved path that begins just outside the town of Puyallup and winds through a pleasant river valley connecting the three towns of Puyallup, Orting and South Prairie. Fifteen miles up and fifteen miles back.
Here are the four of us in Orting's City Park, barely a quarter of the way. Left to right, Me, Bill , Gary and Lisa.
The next few pictures were all taken near the end of the trail, at the halfway point in the town of South Prairie
I think somewhere during this photo op, Bill and Gary were sharing humorous stories. 
Lisa was mentally planning her practice sessions of clipping and unclipping her new hi-tech shoes and pedals without hugging a tree!
And Dale was just wondering if it was really true that the wind blows both ways at the same time in this valley!!
It does, and it DID!
My "hybrid" bike doesn't allow me the opportunity to hunch down into the wind as well as the road bikes the three of them had, so after awhile I noticed I was falling back a bit. A short while later I managed to catch up. But I will guess it was more of the three of them slowing down for me, rather than Dale becoming super fast, hard pedaling "Rocket Man"!!
By the time we made it back to Orting, Hi-Tech Lisa and Bill with their Superbiker Clips and Shoes had pulled quite a ways ahead of Gary and I. We thought we could see them WAY up there. At least we wondered what those two little Orange and Yellow "dots" were so far off in the distance!
So plodding along, enjoying the easy ride back towards our starting point in Puyallup, Dale was "drafting" fairly close behind Gary, when nearly simultaneously Gary stops, Dale's brakes engage, Dale's rear wheel comes off the ground in a backwards wheelie, and we meet Lisa and are introduced to her friend Janet as they were heading back to the opposite direction!! Gary had to head back, but I had time to kill before work, and was thinking about pushing beyond our planned thirty anyway, so I accepted their gracious invitation, and turned around for some more miles and another pleasant ride.
Here is Lisa at the REI "rest area" between Orting and South Prairie, setting up her "Hi-Tech, "Gorilla Pod", Moment in Time Capturing Device".
And here is the resulting picture of the three of us. Janet, Me, and Lisa.
Dale got a little brave on the return trip and managed to single handedly reach behind, pull out his camera and snap off a couple pictures while riding without ending up as roadkill in the ditch!
Here are Lisa and Janet.
Then I got REALLY brave and scooted ahead of them, to try and capture a head on picture of the two of them by pointing backwards.
All I got was my shoulder and Lisa, following behind, probably wondering if that goof was going to end up in the ditch!!
And THEN...the image for history that Dale REALLY DID pass the FORTY MILE MILESTONE!!!! 
Take care all, be safe, more later.
