Yesterday, I went with Ryan Taylor up to work on the project in Barnardsville and had to get a picture of this poor tree's flaccid member. It is amazing the things you see in the woods and the interpretation they can have.
Today though reminded me what fun and a bike can have in common, ME. I have had a fairly deboturous week, with my little brother's b-day and then hanging out with friends until all hours this weekend. But today I went for a great ride with a few folks in Bent Creek. It started out with a rainy wet morning and people backing out of the ride we had planned, but Van, Adam, Merle and his wife...sorry, all came out to play. We rolled out of the parking lot into a sublime mist around 11:30 and started the climb up to Five Points. The route went N. Boundry - Ingles Field Gap - Little Hickory Top - Lower Sidehill - Explorer - turn - turn- look the lake - pavement - car... Papa's and beer. It was one of those days that makes you happy god smacked you with the bike addiction. The mind clears, the body feels like an intimate capsule, and all is right in the world.
Van and I spent much of the ride working through some of the great ideas he had in his road ride the other day. I am very excited about the things that will be happening in the Asheville advocacy scene in the next year. Remember no matter how life can bring you down sometimes, all it takes is stopping and enjoying the ride.
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