We really enjoy being home in our condo and back in Durango: so many things we like doing and the comfort level is much appreciated after asceticism.  One of the first treats we wanted to try was seeing if we could duplicate the Panang Curry we relished in Trang and Stanna “nailed it” when she wok’ed up a batch of Shrimp Panang Curry for our friends Kurt and Carol.

And since we’ve been home over a week, we tried Panang Mu (pork) just last night in the wok and while not quite as good as the Panang Gai (Chicken) Curry we supped on regularly at Mai Muang restaurant, it was finger-lickin’ good nonetheless. So now it’s only chicken left to try next week and we’ll use the local ingredients to make sure we can serve it up for our Durango dinner guests.

We often use the expression “If you don’t like the weather in the San Juan’s just wait 30 minutes” and this was the case last Saturday when we woke up to one inch of snow on the deck.  It only took 30 minutes once the sun came over the Continental Divide to turn the white frocking into a Durango Spring day.

One of the recreation items left-over on my To Do list is to finish the last 500 miles of the Great Divide ride.  So before it gets too hot in the New Mexico alto plano, I’m going down south to finish up that 500-mile segment.  Since it’s self-supported I needed to makeup 7 days’ worth of meals.  Shown left are my breakfast bags of home-made granola with strips of bacon.

I got my Lefty out of cold storage (the garage rather than the condo where it lives in the summer) and tricked it out with bikepacking gear for the jaunt.  New this season is a Sweetroll from Revalate Designs and I’m using the Terrapin seat bag system I took to Thailand.  Now I have an extra set of bikepacking bags for one of you to join me on a trip.