Why stop at 30 days, Leah?!?! Just ride.
cheers, Andrew (Painstakingly pecked out on my iPhone; please pardon my brevity and tpyos.) > On 30 Apr 2020, at 2:37 pm, Leah Peterson <jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mas - copperheads on your ride? Oh my gosh. Just NO. > > I’m one of those people who has a family that wants to spend time together > and make my plans for me. Weight-lifting and a game of Whist were on the > agenda and I’d have to fit a shower in there, too. So, I had to set out > earlier than I wanted, sun high in the sky, 91 degrees and miserable. I did > 11.5 miles and got to experience twilight the last few miles. I do so love > riding in the dark because all the houses on my Top Secret Trail have their > windows illuminated - like fish bowls. I can look in them and see what > people are doing. Which sounds voyeuristic and maybe it is, but there is > something enthralling about seeing folks sitting down to dinners together and > playing with their kids or sitting on their fairy light-lit patios. The world > is going on, and people are making their own ways and here we all are, in > this together. > > A chain link fence borders one side of my TST, and someone had ripped apart > the book The Three Little Pigs, laminated and hole punched it, and zip tied > the pages to the chain link fence at intervals. Genius. There were little > kids careening on their tiny little bicycles, and one kid on a BMX bike who I > thought was for sure going to take me out in a head-on collision. He zoomed > into his lane with a couple seconds to spare and I wanted to congratulate > him. > > My iPhone pinged and when I stopped and checked, I discovered I had been the > subject of some voyeurism myself! An acquaintance from church saw me from her > window and snapped a photo. “Biker in her natural habitat,” the caption read. > > The roadies mostly ignore me (I’m not like a REAL cyclist) but the mountain > bikers are always such bros. Oh, and I forgot to tell you that last night I > crossed paths with a woman on a powder blue beach cruiser, decked out with > fenders and cup holder and I remembered Grant admonishing us to remark > favorably on other people’s bikes. “Hey, we’re twins!” I said. She beamed, “I > just got this bike...TODAY!” > > I’m going to miss this thread. Tomorrow is our last day of #30daysofbiking. > > Leah > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/768EF366-D60E-4E0D-98C7-9A8BF384314E%40gmail.com. > <image0.jpeg> > <image1.jpeg> > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Apr 29, 2020, at 12:58 PM, masmojo <masm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> Google research says Copperhead!? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/LNXRlm7RzOY/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/45f04ada-61ec-4697-9612-39333aa1027e%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/768EF366-D60E-4E0D-98C7-9A8BF384314E%40gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2735240E-9514-4766-A6B8-71E19D6743C9%40flash.net.
