65 Miles for Mom's 65th Birthday

For moms 65 birthday she decided to ride 65 miles - so we picked a course and off we went! We chose to ride west of Portland instead of out in the gorge so we'd have less climbing (smart!). It was a great, great day. 

Mom and our chauffeur for the day - Thor. Thor had to work that Sunday, but he graciously drove us out to our start in Beaverton AND then came out to pick us up in Vernonia when we were done. Champ!

Mom and I suited up and ready to roll out. 

Looking fast!

By midday the early morning fog had burned off and we had beautiful, blue skies. 

Managed to snag one selfie without going off the road to prove we were both on our bikes and having fun despite having taken a wrong turn that added about 8 miles onto our route (which ended up being a very good thing in the end).

Still smiling and riding strong around mile 40!

Here we are enjoying well deserved margaritas at the end of our ride waiting for Thor to come and pick us up. 

  we don't have any pictures from the final stretch because the Banks to Vernonia trail is not very picturesque. Originally we were planning to ride it out and back to get the full 65 miles in, but because of our earlier detour we were able to skip that - which was good - because neither of us wanted to ride it back the whole way! 

Mom was saying how she wasn't sure about keeping up the tradition of riding 5 more miles every significant birthday (70 on 70, 75 on 75, etc.) - but I said that's ok! we can just switch to sky diving like ex-President Bush to mark those birthdays! :) Who's in in 5 years?!