comfortable padded seat. Rick’s touring bike boasts panniers for snacks, repair kit and extra clothing. His handlebar pack carries our road map and camera. Donning gloves and helmets, we pedal on Hot Springs Road, its ample shoulder separating us from streams of motorists. Near the welcoming entrance into Harrison, long-horned, woolly highland cattle gather in a field under huge cottonwoods. The end of the lush golf course signals our turnoff onto Golf Road. Now on quiet country roads, we pass blossoming cherry trees, yellow daffodils and red tulips lining fences. Thousands of tiny white daisies will later carpet surrounding meadows; late summer brings rippling crops of corn. Spinning along pastoral back roads named for pioneers, we pass vintage farmhouses, weathered barns and pastures with black and white dairy cows. Observing a cyclist maxim “drink before you’re thirsty,” we regularly sip water. Two other cycling dictums decree “rest before you’re tired!” and “eat before you’re hungry!” So, arriving in Agassiz, we take a break, snacking at a Pioneer Park picnic table.
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