Four of us from my company are leaving at 3 PM this afternoon for a three day conference in Des Moines. We're taking the company car and meeting at the office parking lot. It would have been really tempting to just drive to work today.

Instead, I packed up my panniers with everything I'll need for the trip and loaded up my bike. This morning I rode to a client's office (51 degrees with a moderate head wind, wet roads but no rain falling.) Later on I'll ride across town to the office, lock my bike to the rack and we'll load up the company car and head out of town. I'm just going to use my Ortlieb City Roller bags as my luggage for the trip. Late Friday night when we return to town I'll just pop my panniers onto the bike and ride home.

I figure that way I can keep my consecutive bicycle work commute streak going, which as of today is 377.