Cosmic Cycler
So according to gmaps pedometer, I biked approximately 15.5 miles this morning, including nearly 300 vertical change (most of it several times) - Hillsborough is hilly. No wonder I'm tired.
Went through the big quarry off Eno Mtn Rd on my way up to town, dropped off a book at the Library, stopped in at the coffee shop for a while, checked out an old slave cemetery on Margaret road, checked out the relatively new Gold Park on Dimmock's Mill Rd. The park is reasonably nice, and the section of Eno riverwalk alongside it is awesome... for the minute it lasts. C'mon Hillsborough, pull this riverwalk thing together... you've got a bunch of little sections already.
Disconcerting moment of the trip: after Dimmock's Mill turns south across the Eno, it crosses 85 on a rather narrow bridge with not terribly high rails right where 40 is merging so the freeway is like 8 lanes wide. Leaves a biker feeling a little... exposed. Anyway, then I passed "New Goloka" which seems to be some sort of Krishna-esque commune, complete with an adobe geodesic dome house and tons of vegetables. Kinda cool. Later I took a wrong turn and ended up looping way further south than I'd intended. Ah well, I can use the exercise, even if the uphill in the full sun bits almost killed me. Hopefully I'll escape without too much sunburn. A little preparatory tan before the beach trip could be useful, actually.
Also, a few things nifty enough to double-post from twitter (still pending a better system for this):
Totally awesome: The Secret Origin of Ada Lovelace (RT from @ananthymous)
Man, if I was in Tokyo I would so be going to Macross Crossover Live
Also also, I totally fail at finding Kaela Kimura's first three albums anywhere. Alas.
Went through the big quarry off Eno Mtn Rd on my way up to town, dropped off a book at the Library, stopped in at the coffee shop for a while, checked out an old slave cemetery on Margaret road, checked out the relatively new Gold Park on Dimmock's Mill Rd. The park is reasonably nice, and the section of Eno riverwalk alongside it is awesome... for the minute it lasts. C'mon Hillsborough, pull this riverwalk thing together... you've got a bunch of little sections already.
Disconcerting moment of the trip: after Dimmock's Mill turns south across the Eno, it crosses 85 on a rather narrow bridge with not terribly high rails right where 40 is merging so the freeway is like 8 lanes wide. Leaves a biker feeling a little... exposed. Anyway, then I passed "New Goloka" which seems to be some sort of Krishna-esque commune, complete with an adobe geodesic dome house and tons of vegetables. Kinda cool. Later I took a wrong turn and ended up looping way further south than I'd intended. Ah well, I can use the exercise, even if the uphill in the full sun bits almost killed me. Hopefully I'll escape without too much sunburn. A little preparatory tan before the beach trip could be useful, actually.
Also, a few things nifty enough to double-post from twitter (still pending a better system for this):
Totally awesome: The Secret Origin of Ada Lovelace (RT from @ananthymous)
Man, if I was in Tokyo I would so be going to Macross Crossover Live
Also also, I totally fail at finding Kaela Kimura's first three albums anywhere. Alas.