Thread: How many of you "take the longer route"?
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Old 10-22-10 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirt Farmer
Yeah, I know... I know... my mileage is "wimpy"... a mere 2.8 miles (one way) for the short, traffic-heavy way. Or 3.5 for the calm, riding-through-serene-neighborhoods-with-aromatic-juniper-firewood-smoke-escaping-from-within-the-chimneys-of-pastoral-households-and-little-traffic way.
When I stop off for the PBR, one neighborhood I have to come through on the way home is a largely hispanic working class area. The other day I could smell all kinds of good stuff cooking- carnitas, pescado (fish), and other stuff I had no idea what it was but boy did it smell good!
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Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
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