Fall-Tastic Commute!...
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Fall-Tastic Commute!...
Fall colors on this morning's 25F commute to work!
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Below freezing holy smokes! In Memphis we just broke the record high temperature for 9 October, hitting 91 degrees yesterday. Previous record was 90, which was the day my wife and I attended the Little Rock AR air show, and I remember vividly how hot it was that day.
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Below freezing holy smokes! In Memphis we just broke the record high temperature for 9 October, hitting 91 degrees yesterday. Previous record was 90, which was the day my wife and I attended the Little Rock AR air show, and I remember vividly how hot it was that day.
I stopped for lunch the next day on the Florida Turnpike where it was 75F. When I returned to the car there were a bunch of kids having a snowball fight with the snow from the car's bumpers. Too bad we didn't have cellphone cameras back then. (or cellphones for that matter)
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I've had early morning commutes to work, if I leave between 5 and 5:30 AM, where I ride 15 miles and see zero cyclists, zero people walking, and only 5 or 6 total cars pass me. I can go months and hundreds of miles without seeing a single other cyclist on my commute route.
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I've had early morning commutes to work, if I leave between 5 and 5:30 AM, where I ride 15 miles and see zero cyclists, zero people walking, and only 5 or 6 total cars pass me. I can go months and hundreds of miles without seeing a single other cyclist on my commute route.
The island is 9 mi2 with a population of around 250K people so the streets are always flooded with people and cyclists. Not as many as CPH, but quite a few.
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