Control:  Grocery Store

This is my most common utility ride.  The nearest grocery store is a mere 2 miles away.  Mongo loves to go to the grocery store.  I think it’s all the admiring stares he gets from the motorists.  Especially when he’s loaded up with retail food bounty. Today he got extra praise from a small group of rest home escapees.

That sure is a cool looking bike.

Observations

Done this route so many times, there’s not much to discover.  But I did manage to make a couple of observations:

• what is it about parking lots that makes drivers lose their minds?  Why are they compelled to drive like they’re out on the highway?
• when I went through driver’s education (lo these many eons ago) I was taught that if you missed a turn or an exit the best course of action was to continue on and not make any radical moves in a foolhardy attempt to make the turn.  On this trip I witnessed at least 5 people make very unsafe, bizarre lane changes and stunt-driver like turns.  Is it distraction from all the gadgets?  Is it daydreaming?  Is it substandard way-finding?  I don’t get it.

Winter Cycling Challenge

Right on schedule.  Two weeks, four controls.

Mongo: "is that all you got?"