Day Fourteen Monday 28th May 2007

The view from the work window, it is a grey day on the construction site 12 floors up!

Forecast for today: Monday
Cloudy with a shower or two developing. Fresh northerly winds.

Precis: Shower or two.
City: Min 13 Max 17

Wow two weeks. Nearly got run over this morning. Got cut off by a car. It is amazing how cars just don't percieve bikes as traffic. Two of us across the intersection, with right of way against the driver attempting to turn across our path. He did see us eventually, and stopped. All I said was we have right of way! I notice that don't really have road rage much on the bike!

Weather has been grey and cloudy for the whole day. In our drought focussed climate this is a good thing. The wind is refreshing, despite looking ominous the first time I looked out the window at home. The ride home is a bit windy. This really is the car free challenge. At least when you ride up a hill, you get the reward of the down hill. In my experience there isn't a reward of a tailwind after a head wind.

I choose to ride a slightly different route home. It is enjoyable having this flexibility and being able to choose different scenery. I wonder how may people choose to do a different route home in a car?! Usually the choice is not about the scenery, but about trying to avoid traffic. Riding home, going car free, really is a different experince that is a whole lot more about enjoying the journey rather than rushing to the destination in a stressed state. Even though I have choosen a different route home it does not take any longer than the "normal" route home. As they say a change is as good as a holiday.