Originally Posted by sbhikes
At night, despite the solar-powered lights, the bike path is really dark and quiet. A lot of cyclists turn off their headlights to enjoy the darkness. I've seen mice and frogs on the bike path at night. It's so quiet you can hear eerie sounds. It's so dark you can see the stars in the sky. You can smell people's fires burning and dinners cooking. When other cyclists pass me they do it so silently they barely raise their voices to say hello so as not to disturb the silence.
This sounds like a lot of my early morning comute to work on these rural highways. Except that not many people are up that early, and even fewer out and about. Some mornings I don't get passed by any cars in an almost eight mile commute. On nights when the moon is bright and there are no cars around, coming from either direction, I'll turn my headlights off and ride in the moonlight.
