So on Tuesday I fly out to Atlanta for a job interview.  It's for a credit/risk management analyst position at Synovus Bank.  It's a great job doing what I want to be doing and a good opportunity to grow my career.  When I started applying to jobs Georgia is not the place I had in mind, but I'm tired of being jobless and am ready to move on to the next step.

This week I biked over to a local bike shop and test rode some bikes.  They did not have the one that I have in mind to buy (Surly Crosscheck) but I did get to try 4 others.  The one I liked the best is also made by Surly.  It was their touring bike, the Long Haul Trucker.  What I did not like about it was that it felt a little small and the riding position was a little too upright for my liking.  I think that both of these would be solved if I got a Crosscheck a size bigger that the one I tried.  I still have some other bikes I would like to try.  Maybe next week when I'm in Washington I'll try to find some bike shops up there and test some more.

So the weather has not been cooperating with me the last couple of weeks.  I took my fenders off about a month ago thinking that there would be enough nice days in a week to get all the riding in that I wanted.  Unfortunately since then it has rained a lot more than I thought. The weather was great the last couple of days.  I took Nathan over the the overpass yesterday to look at the cars.  He just wanted to sit on my lap and watch the big trucks go underneath us.  For a while he was standing up and screaming "WOW" whenever a big truck went under.

Today during Nathan's nap I biked along the Fern Ridge Trail and out to the wet prairie.  My route took me down by the river, by campus, and through downtown Eugene until I got to the beginning of the trail.  The trail goes through Eugene and west out past Eugene to the wet prairie.  The path is pretty secluded even though a large portion goes through town.  There isn't a lot of pedestrians once you get out of Eugene, it's well paved and pretty straight.  Round trip was a little over 30 miles.  It was a great ride, sunny, nice scenery and I was able to keep at 19-20 mph for most of the ride.  This next week is supposed to be beautiful so I'm planning another trip out there and doing  40 and 50 mile rides.  Here's some pictures of the wet prairie.