Nothing too unusual this morning - great weather, great ride.

Yesterday getting home though was interesting. The traffic was backed up for maybe 1/2 mile. I had to use the sidewalk for a bit as a school bus was blocking the entire lane right to the curb in front of me. Got back on the road and passed several dozen cars . Stopped at a red light and helped a lost cager with directions (didn't even have to roll down my window). After the red light, zooming down hill (about 40k just coasting) a recycle truck decided to put his wheel on the white line seperating MY lane from everyone else. Guess where that put HIS mirror? Yep, right in the middle of my lane at about head level. Bastid. Getting an air horn soon. A couple dozen more cars passed and we come to the source of the problem (for drivers anyway). Two cars decided to bump into each other on a busy on/off ramp. Had to ride over some bits of plastic (hoping for no flat) as I flew by them. After that it was back to normal.

Someone told me about that stretch of road about an hour later, how it's backed up and hardly moving, with people doing u turns to get away from it... guess what I saw was just the beginning... silly drivers. Would have been even better if I got there a little later. I would have passed hundreds of stopped cars. I'll be sure to whistle a merry little tune next time