This morning’s bike ride was a nice slow ride with my weekday biking companions.
But I believe all of us are tiring of the same route day in and day out. Perhaps it’s time to change routes or alter the one we have! If it were not for vehicular traffic and ruthless scofflaws, making a change would be simple. In reality, there simply are not many places in our area to ride a bike that are safe from one or the other.
City and county parks are generally safe, but most of them are too small. Let’s face it, who wants to ride in circles for two or three hours!? A Gerbil in a cage on a Ferris wheel comes to mind.
There are very few “country roads” remaining in South Florida. Ever since the last half century’s population explosion, we have regressed into a quagmire of people, roads, cars and buildings. Buildings and asphalt roads replaced sub-tropical trees and palm-shrubs, the cars and trucks spew out pollution into the air, and the people speak multiple languages.
Picture the Tower of Babel in a jam-packed city with motorcars.
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