No commuting in today, but I will talk about yesterday. Morning ride in was for the most part really great. I did feel like I was fighting with myself though 1/2 the time. Maybe my rear wheel is a tad off center. I got a new wheelset for my commuter, and switched the front wheel already, but still have to do the rear (need a chain whip and such to switch the cassette over). Not a whole lot to report, except yet another stupid train that completely stopped and blocked every possible way in the direction I was heading. I mean, really now, WTF?! So, I had to turn around and head a different way after the proper one finger salute.

Evening ride turned out to be semi-epic. I decided to try and find my way to some different roads just to change things up. Turned off the regular route (I still knew this part quite well) and eventually came to a road closed to thru traffic sign. Ok, whatever...that just means there won't be many cars around! Come to another sign/barricade that said road closed. Okay, there was a side street right next to it, maybe it cuts through past the closure. I waste a good mile/mile and a half to determine that no, it doesn't and there is no way to get from where I am to where I want to go without going through the road closure or pedal all the way back from whence I came. The other option was to follow the side road to the main thoroughfare from my part of town to the city...a road with no shoulders and too much traffic...so not really an option at all.

Back up the hill to the barricade I go. Obviously they had to block out cars, but why should I feel like I couldn't surmount whatever obstacle lay in wait. shortly after I go around the barricade, I come to a huge dirt mound blocking the entire road. Okay, I'll just get off my bike and walk around. Once I get around, 1/2 the road is gone! Washed out during the flood we had a month or so ago. Kind of cool to look at, and maybe I'll just keep walking my bike, since there is another big dirt barrier ahead. I get to the other side, go past the next road barricade and I am in the clear! Of course, I forget the name of the road I am supposed to turn down next, but know that a few roads connect to that one, so I turn off shortly after and wind my way through a neighborhood and find the road I want.

Things are looking up! Then I come across a memorial garden on the left, and then gravestones on the right, then gravestones on both sides of the road...the only lights are mine and some illuminating some gravestones. A tiny bit creepy, I suppose but it was also quite pretty. Made me think back to walking through Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

I'll have to do it again and take some pictures while the road is still gone, but I think once they fix it it will be a good change of pace for the ride home.