Yesterday afternoon there were 2 accidents on the interstate. This caused a lot of drivers to divert to secondary roads. Exiting our business park put me on one of those roads. This two lane road has no bike lane, but I managed to carefully roll past many cars on the shoulder and/or keep pace with them as they crept along. The shoulder is bordered by cut grass so worst case would be I'd have to swerve into that.

Later on I got to a side road where cars were really backed up trying to turn right onto the already clogged secondary road. One guy was apparently not happy with sitting in such traffic and blamed it all on me. "Dumb f*****g idiot!" I just laughed and kept going.

A cool - compared to most days this month - 56F this morning. A light tailwind breeze helped me add a couple of extra miles. Best of all - it's Friday and Memorial Day weekend - 3 days off!