Monday Recovery Ride and a Mansion.

Just a short update. I rode for the third day in a row in the heat. It was a simple 18.5 mile ride in about an hour and twenty minutes. The wind was from the SW at 15 MPH so of course I road into the wind for 50 minutes and then turned around and rode with the wind back to my house. The highlight of the ride was passing an honest to goodness mansion. Set in amongst the corn fields is a sprawling manicured estate. An ornamental red brick wall surrounds the perimeter of the estate. The "mansion" itself, I was told later, has indoor and outdoor swimming pools tennis courts game rooms etc... As it turns out the mansion is owned by a steel tycoon in the area and my wife went to school with one of the children. It was truly strange to ride past an old farm house with a coon dog laying on the porch and then not more then a half mile later to ride past this sprawling estate. Country Life is interesting and riding these different routes every trip has added a sense of adventure to my rides.