Trailing
This morning I shoved my bike in my car (after attaching a new bell, and breaking out my new gloves, and filling the tires with a new pump with a pressure gauge that actually works) and met up with anacoluthon for a shot at the Tobacco trail. We did the northern section, which is entirely paved and runs from near the intersection of 54 and Fayetteville (just across 40 from Southpoint) up to the Durham Bulls stadium. It's about 6.5 miles each way, and very flat since it was originally a railroad route. It was fun! I was impressed how much of it managed to be pretty well in among trees, considering we were going right through Durham.
For lunch at the far end we went to Tyler's Taproom in the warehouse district. They were running a Sunday brunch menu, so I had a delicious eggs benedict (with, of course, hollandaise cause made with ale in it). I also saw that they carried some Hitachino beers (they're a Japanese brewery that makes a lacto stout I tried in DC) and got a Hitachino Espresso Stout, which was pretty tasty. Mo got a Redstone Boysenberry honey mead, which was delicious too. Then we split an apple brown betty with vanilla ice cream for desert. So good.
Some other time I want to try the southern portion of the trail, which runs from a bit south of Southpoint down almost all the way to the end of Jordan Lake. Looks like fun. I think it's mostly not paved, but is graded smooth. Anyone wanna come with? Totally soliciting volunteers for this. Sadly, Mo's bike isn't really the thing for off-pavement.
Speaking of volunteers, I'm also still trying to tempt anyone into the Jonathan Coulton concert on Friday - Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, doors at 9pm, basic tickets $18.
Today is also laundry day. One drawback of the bachelor lifestyle is having to do all the chores myself...
For lunch at the far end we went to Tyler's Taproom in the warehouse district. They were running a Sunday brunch menu, so I had a delicious eggs benedict (with, of course, hollandaise cause made with ale in it). I also saw that they carried some Hitachino beers (they're a Japanese brewery that makes a lacto stout I tried in DC) and got a Hitachino Espresso Stout, which was pretty tasty. Mo got a Redstone Boysenberry honey mead, which was delicious too. Then we split an apple brown betty with vanilla ice cream for desert. So good.
Some other time I want to try the southern portion of the trail, which runs from a bit south of Southpoint down almost all the way to the end of Jordan Lake. Looks like fun. I think it's mostly not paved, but is graded smooth. Anyone wanna come with? Totally soliciting volunteers for this. Sadly, Mo's bike isn't really the thing for off-pavement.
Speaking of volunteers, I'm also still trying to tempt anyone into the Jonathan Coulton concert on Friday - Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, doors at 9pm, basic tickets $18.
Today is also laundry day. One drawback of the bachelor lifestyle is having to do all the chores myself...