Tour dem Parks Hon

Over the last few weeks professors have been telling us to work in some "ME" time amongst all the crazyness, so today Alex and I decided to tackle the metric century Tour dem Parks Hon ride. The 65 mile ride would take us all around Baltimore to some of the major parks.  Fun fact we got from the ride was that many of the parks were originally encampments for soldiers during the Civil War. 

This year had some BOMB t-shirts (a few years ago they were orange).

Around mile 20 we stopped at one of the rest stops and found out that we were only the 7th and 8th riders to come through.  Even though we were not moving at great speeds, we had somehow beat most of the riders. 

From there, the ride took us through Carrol Park and out to the American Brewery.  

 

Then eventually we made our way to Patterson Park, one of the oldest parks in Baltimore.  It was great that Friends of Patterson Park opened up the pagoda.  It was a super clear day out which meant we could see all the way to Fort McHenry. 

View from Federal Hill

As we headed into the final five minutes, we came across these awesome windowsill boxes - the cats put it over the top.

As soon as I got home I was ready for a shower, a nap and some blue.  Thankfully Arden had sent all the SUS'ians some blue powder and we got some SNAZZY free water bottles from REI so I was able to whip some up!  Another thing crossed off the Baltimore Bucket List.