Ancient & new

787 Dreamliner finally flew today to great satisfaction. Viewed Petroglyphs from ancient ones.

Today was a rest day. Propane fill up and blood pressure check ( where it should be). I was settling down in a parking lot preparing to figure out this new Core watch when my phone rang. It was Dan whom I met yesterday. He hurt himself badly crashing his mountain bike. He was killing time while his computer was downloading all sorts of stuff @ OTE using their wireless. He offered to show me the Anasazi ruin & petroglyphs outside of Santa Clara. Cool. I can hike to see these signs.

We walked up to fractured rock cliff while he stayed up above as he was not sufficiently nimble to crawl thru the rocks. I made my way over & around rocks to view & phot a bunch of carvings. They all faced west. Just down the ridge was an site that today’s people believe was a food storage site as there were several shaped depressions in the earth. Off road vehicles had traveled thru & over the site for years before it was excavated in 2006, 07. How would a site be identified dug into the earth?

No Kokopeli glyphs.

Dan showed me a place to camp down the ways.

Drove back into Santa Clara for strong internet signal and accessed Boeing site and caught the press conference w/ the test pilots after their 3 hour maiden flight of 787. I planned a whole bunch of the plaster ducts for the environmental control system. Yes, I felt pride.

I bought oranges from a roadside stand. Guy drives a semi down to someplace in CA, buys tree ripened oranges, drives back to here and sells them roadside. Tree ripened sweet, picked when ready. He did say that oranges will get sweeter later in season. Bought a bag. I ate a large one that was delicious.

Back @ campsite near glyphs. Hiked up and viewed the excavated site.

Tomorrow I plan on riding Barrel roll trail system just down the river from here. I rode it previously back in June.

Temps are in 50s and just above freezing @ night.

Met another Dan on MTBR.com who is planning a S AZ trip. I am cogitating my involvement.

PUSH digs the new Turner Spot and the Rock Shox 150 mm Revelation fork which takes a 20 mm axle. I will need a new front wheel for the larger axle, have it PUSHed ( custom tuned), and the shock also PUSHed. Lots of bucks, little over a grand plus the frame cost. How good will Santa be to me?