Y'know: I wanted to post a little bit about the experience of the ride this weekend.....what you don't see from the photos is the reconnection to both history (on the bikes and with the trail and the bridge), but also nature....we went past (and sampled) wild grapes, picked the few remaining wild raspberries still uneaten by the birds, watched monarchs getting ready for their migration, picked a bunch of apples from the old trees (and later made them into apple crisp that I am now enjoying), and even stumbled upon Jack-in-the-pulpits seeding, which I have never seen before and are beautiful.

Its a real privilege to be able to do this, and the bicycle enables this....so there, go and hug your bike!