A Beautiful Couple of Days!

We've had beautiful weather the last two days, so we've been doing lots of bike riding with some stops at various beaches.

This is a shot from the bridge of the bike trail we ride into Venice and beyond — it is called the Venetian Waterway Trail.

We can ride the trail all the way to Venice Beach — these are shots from yesterday at Venice Beach.

This morning, Greg took his road bike out on the trail while I worked on another project back at the motor home. The sun is just too intense to be out in it all day, so often we are going out for just part of the day.









After lunch, we rode our bikes to Nakomis Beach. There were lots of families and the beach was so colorful!

It's really nice to see people being more conscious of not getting too much sun exposure. Many people have beach umbrellas and I've noticed a lot of younger children wear sun-protection shirts on the beach and in the water. I wish these shirts had been around when our kids were little!

A far cry from when I was a younger girl and teenager and often got too sunburned on a day like today!

Here is our umbrella that we set up to protect us from too much sun.

Unfortunately, with all my precautions with not getting too much sun (wearing a long-sleeved shirt when biking, sunscreen all the time, a beach umbrella, etc.) I seem to have now developed some hives from sun exposure?

Luckily, they don't itch like the noseeum bites did, but don't look that great. Oh, well, that's my fair English skin!