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Today was a Good Day

 

Post #17: I went for an early ride this morning.  I rolled out of the house in Covington around 7am.  I left early to escape the heat that was coming mid-day. 

    I was about a mile from the house when a rider appeared from Old State Road, we waved and I went due south to Silver Lake Road for the 3 mile long climb to La Grange Road.  It took me about 17 minutes, but once there I turned to the east to Geneseo.  
       I never have been over that way. I had concerns about shoulder widths on the roads.  With that said, I planned the route down Jones Bridge Road, and hoped to see the Boyd and Parker Tree.  Being that I was crossing the Genesee River I thought the tree was close to its' banks.  I came out to the highway about a mile from the bridge and discovered my memory is faulty and the tree was about a 1/2 mile the other direction.  I have seen the tree a thousand  times, but never by bike.  
    I climbed the road and passed a cyclist on the climb.  After I passed her I came to a traffic light and was stopped.  She caught up to me and this intersection is tricky it is not a clean intersection.  It is a T-intersection with a 45 degree right hand turn.  I pulled up on the white line on the shoulder, and she worked her way down the intersection to the right more to have less traffic to cross with.  I am still pondering whom was safer.  My thought was being visible to cars making the right hand turn who may drive the shoulder.  If a car had, they would have hit her.  But she had the shortest line to cross the intersection with.  I am still pondering who was safer.  
    I carried on after the light turned green and strolled into downtown Geneseo.  I saw the bear is still in the downtown fountain.  I pushed trough downton and left to the North and hopped on a gravel road called Nations Road.  I think the name is tied to the Iroquois.  I saw a road that headed off to the west to the Genesee River.  I decided to take it to see an old bridge maybe.  I did not know the road existed.  I got a 1/4 mile down it to see a dead end sign.  I U-turned and went back the gravel road that became a paved road.  When I popped out, it was behind a another cyclist.  I hunkered down and passed him.  I then went into Fowlerville and then into York, then I came home via downtown Pavilion.  
    Today was a good day, I saw people out enjoying Western New York.

Cheers and Godspeed.

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