First ride in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range...

The Andalucian mountains are breathtaking and a cyclist's paradise.
The climbs go for ever and have that perfect grade. The decents are narrow and if you take care and stay on your side you will be fine. Motorists are for the most part extremely respectful of cyclists. Then again where we went there weren't that many cars but from those we encountered we were very impressed.


We left Padul and biked to Orgiva and hit cute little towns where the streets are narrow and the houses all connected. This took us an hour and that was the end of our planned route upon which we
saw a road that went up and followed it. We hit Lorgivan, Pitres and a slew of other cute villages built in to the sides of these never ending mountains. Taz was in control of the camera today and snapped tons of pictures. Yup there is me climbing out of on the the villages on our way to never never land.

The coolest thing we saw were lots of little caves and houses or shacks built into the moutains. That is one way to save on building costs!!!


So much to show, and so little space, but just imagine endless mountains with at least one view of some snow capped mountains and so many houses literally growing out of the mountain side forming those adorable little villages.







We really wanted to make a loop out of all this, but alas when the mountains never converged at a point we could see, we consulted our GPS and it was confirmed that we'd have to do another few kilometers and then a huge trek on the other side of the canyon which was just a little too upredictable for us. So after three hours, we turned around and headed back.

And, one must give credit to our photographer who clicked himself.. I will have to learn that ride and click technique. All being said and done, boy did we ever deserve our dinner that night! And I really wonder how the heck all these pictures will turn out on this day's blog. :)