31st Anniversary Adventure

May 16th is our wedding anniversary and while I never posted anything about last year's trip to the bridges of Madison county, it was an incredibly fun day and I was looking for something for us to do this year.  A friend on the BookFace posted a Boone valley scenic bike tour.  Looked like fun, so I  booked it.   

If you'd like to book your own tour after looking at the pictures, you can do that here.

There person on the right (sitting in the seats) is the 'primary' driver, meaning so long as they're pedaling, the electric assist function is working, making your life much easier!

I took this one to show how far ahead of us the previous car was.

You can see a very small bit of red on the rails behind me, that is the next car and I took this to demonstrate how much space they put betwixt the 'bikes'.

This was the part that I wasn't sure how I would do...  At one point on this bridge, you're 780 ft above ground.  It's beautiful, but don't look down!

About half way across the bridge, I decided to lean out and take a pic looking straight down.  Bad move.  I realized the only thing holding me in was a single waistline seatbelt and should a fella go goofy, you might just flip right out of that... I did not try that again.

Boone Y camp.

Crossing the Des Moines river.

This is where you stop to turn the buggies around.  Nice little 15 or so minute break to rest the legs at look at the river while they flip the vessels.

I took this on our 'bike' as we're about to head back.

The bridge looking East.

The yellow that you can see on the ground by the car in front of us, is part of the circle that a human rotates (similar to the one at the other end where they turn the cars around to head back) the vehicle to get it pointed in the right direction for the next tour.  Pretty slick!

 

Alaskan Vaca Timeline Posts

Day 1, Travelling:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/07/alaskan-vaca-2022-part-i-travelling-to.html 

Day 2, The Arctic Circle:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/07/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-2-artic-circle.html

Day 3, Part 1, the boat tour:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/08/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-3-part-i-boat.html

Day 3, Part 2, Gold Dredge tour:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/08/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-3-part-ii-gold.html

Day 4, Travelling from Fairbanks:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/08/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-4-travelling-from.html

Day 5, Iditarod Dude and His Dogs:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/08/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-5-part-i-iditarod.html

Day 5, Idiatrod Dude and His ATV's:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/08/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-5-part-ii.html

Day 6, Travelling from Talkeetna:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/09/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-6-travelling-from.html

Day 7, The South Airport, Bears, Volcano's and More:
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/10/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-7-south-airport.html

Day 8, A Trip To Homer
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/10/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-8-trip-to-homer.html

Day 9, Travelling to Seward and our first iceberg
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-9-our-first.html

Day 10, Seward and a LONG boat tour
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-10-seward-long.html

Day 11, Goodbye Seward & Hello to Eagle River!
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2023/02/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-11-goodbye-to.html

Day 12, Lounging Around the Eagle River Cabin.
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2023/02/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-12-lounging.html

Day 13, Flying Home, Some Cool Pics From the Sky
http://schmitzchaos.blogspot.com/2023/05/alaskan-vaca-2022-day-13-flying-home.html

Alaskan Vaca 2022 - Day 13, Flying Home... *sigh*

I'm not saying anything more than my intro...   I love pics from airplanes and this post is pretty must just that as we're flying from Anchorage to the Twin Cities and driving our tired butts home from there.  And that's what happened.