When we left for the park, it was chilly and clear. But when we reached the city of Petaluma, it was very foggy!
We hiked and biked at this park many times, but this was the first time to hike on such a foggy day.
But some parts of the park were fine.
The bridge we've never noticed was on the trail of the southeast side where there is more forest and lots of poison oak sticking out. Yeah, we've avoided walking through that. But following the group of hikers was not bad.
When the blue sky came out, the temperature changed completely so that I sweat a lot.
Just before we finished today's hike, the leader pointed out the back of the sky with dark gray clouds, and said rain will come.
But we dropped by the store to pick up some groceries. When we came out of the store, the heavy rain was pouring away. So we waited for awhile, then it calmed down, so we got into our car and went home.
What a fortunate moment in which we could hike. We got tired and in pain, but after sleeping an hour we were fine. We felt good.
Never imagined the weather makes our life dramatic.😉😁
A week before, we hiked on the trail with worry about rain. We had some showers from time to time, but we could enjoy hiking by the bay water.
Then, I realized that I had a hard time getting to sleep if I didn't have any exercise. So this week I started walking in the morning around 2 miles to get sunlight. It seems to be working so far.
Today I walked over 3 miles with an umbrella, and after the falling rain stopped, we biked almost 5 miles in the afternoon.
Well, hope tomorrow's hiking will be fun for us. We both are a little worried about our never-goes-away lower body pain from walking, biking and gardening or any chore. But at our age we should forget it and just carefully keep going. Nobody knows how much longer we can do any exercise.
I felt that we are getting weak physically by aging. And we need to walk more weekly. So I decided to walk or hike on Monday, and sure to hike on Saturday.
Today we went to Sonoma Valley Regional Park for hiking. We did revenge hike on Couger Trail all the way to Glen Ellen which we, mainly because of me, couldn't do on March 3rd.
We started the same steep slope, we found many acorns on the ground!
I put GoPro, bike camera on the strap of my shoulder bag, so the picture was showing like this.
I still had a hard time to walk up the steep slope all by myself, and regret not to bring my hiking stick. But I got a good idea.
This is still enjoyable for me anyway.
But on down slope I prefer going by myself. So he got free.
We reached to Glen Ellen and picked up some food and drink at Glen Ellen Grocery. And we headed back, but we took Valley of the Moon Trail which was not easy for us to get in, because the trail looked very different from biking in past.
Anyway we came back after finishing a 3.3 mile hike. Those were very nice trails to hike for us, even though some steep down slopes on the Couger Trail towards Glen Ellen have loose rocks, so we had to be careful not to fall.
