I’ve taken a good chunk of this week off from work. I don’t take a lot of vacations, and the ones I do take tend to be on the busy side.
This week? No big plans. Housework. Yard stuff. No biggie.
But yesterday – well, along about mid-afternoon, I’d had about enough.
I jumped on the bike, and did something I’d wanted to do for quite a long time:
- Rode down Energy Park to the U of M Intercampus busway.
- Took the bike path alongside the busway into the U of M.
- Crossed from the east to west banks of the U on the Washington Avenue bridge. Spent some time looking over the staging yard on the west bank flats, down below; it’s where they load the barges with new sections for the 35W Bridge reconstruction, about half a mile upstream).
- Over to Cedar/Riverside
- Down the bike path along the light rail line
- Over the “Sabo Bridge” – the big single-suspension bridge over Hiawatha, and thence onto the Midtown Greenway across town.
- To Lake Calhoun…
- …and then around Lake Harriett…
- …to the Minnehaha Creek bike trail.
- Then, up East River Road to Marshall…
- and home.
Not sure how far it was, but it was a gorgeous day, and all in all it beat the heck out of vacuuming.