Burning Ones

I thought I might begin to semi-chronicle my evolution into being a biker and I’m going to start today because I’ve had a phenomenal past two days on the bike.

So, reason number 1 why I like to bike so much (at least recently). You are able to go places cars are not. Yesterday, apparently, there was a massive accident on either Route 1 or I-95 that had traffic being diverted directly on the route that I take in to work. If I had been in a car, I would have been forced to detour, which apparently took some of my co-workers over an hour given the volume of traffic attempting to get across the Boulevard. However, because I was on my bike, I was able to cross the Route 1 with the blessings of the Police that were directing traffic. An hour detour turned into a 30 second crossing. That’s not bad!

As if that wasn’t good enough, the township has been working on a major artery of my route to CHC for the past few weeks (which has made the ride a whole lot less enjoyable due to the horrible condition of the road) and today they finally had to make a big push so they closed down the whole road. While cars went around to God knows where, I happily jumped onto the side walk and pedaled on past. Again, where I might have gone 10 minutes out of my way, I was able to just move on and enjoy the commute. Fun Fun!

Look for more thoughts about biking in the coming weeks, as I’m falling more and more in love with the bi-pedal commute