Showing posts with label bicycle touring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle touring. Show all posts

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Freedom

And actually, before I went on that longwinded discussion of libraries, that last post about two of my favorite things was going to be about libraries, and a favorite new word I just learned:

eleutheromania (n): an intense and irresistable desire for freedom

A shout out to the Cycling Dutch Girl blog for teaching me that fantastic word! (You should really go check out the blog: she has been traveling more or less constantly for fourteen years and counting, and has great posts and gorgeous photography.) 

Friday, June 11, 2010

Rails to Trails, aka mountain biking



This isn't from the worst trails that google maps tried to send me on (the Southern New England Trunk Line, and the northern portion of the Airline North State Park Trail, both in northeastern Connecticut.) It's actually from the day before, on the trail I mention in  this post which was comparatively great biking.

This tunnel had standing water deep enough that a couple big sucks and rocks I tossed into it disappeared entirely. I'm not a fan of cycling with wet, muddy shoes, so I scrambled up the hillside, crossed the road, and scrambled back down.

Yesterday was another one of those rocky days in my tenuous relationship with Google Maps. When it sent me onto a dirt road on my third turn, a mile and a half into my ride, I seriously thought we might need to break up. (Hint: Cody Road in Fitchburg, MA is dirt.)  Shortly thereafter, it routed me through a church parking lot, and what was basically someone's back yard.

We're working on it. I have to work on it too, mostly by not putting so much trust in it, until it has worked on some of its issues. I'm looking in to relationship therapy.