I hate that I have TO commute today! This is the ideal weather to ride… breezy with morning rains, clearing to 74+ degrees with leaves blowing all over the roads and the majority of leaves and colours remaining on the trees. Air cleaned from four days of West coast weather. T-shirt, bike shorts, sandals and helmet is all. Three airforce jets flew by on the way to work stopping both cars and cyclists alike to gawk upward… probably another visit from Presidential candidates or their entourage. Dicaprio was spotted having coffee downtown Des Moines yesterday by a cyclist. A Gilbert Grape fan named Betsy at La Mie Bakery and Restaurant is rumoured to be renaming coffee drinks "Leonardo DiCappuccino"… anyway I feel sick… better call out ill and hit the roads… weather won't be like this forever! Have a good return ride folks, and a great Beggar's night / Halloween / Dias de los Muertos / Election night and Guy Fawkes Day!