How much do you see?

[withm]

Awwww geee - I've been thinking I should take pix of my commute since much of it is really nice but now that it's dark so early I'm not riding to work anymore. Could do it tomorrow but riding 13 miles one way with 20-30 mile headwinds is not very enticing. And then there's the matter of it being hard to photograph "the wind." The forecast is 4-6' waves on the ocean but if the wind goes west, the ocean will look seemingly flat when I cross over the inlet bridge. Maybe I can commute to work on Sunday if the wind dies a bit and take some pix. The gardens on the return leg are really beautiful.... OK, I've talked myself into it - I'll try to do it on Sunday.

Martha

[onimity]

I rode part of my commute route yesterday and took some photos. They are on-the-bike photos with my point and shoot, so not the best composition/quality shots I've taken!



This sign is just a few feet from my house.



Tiny country road. It dead-ends onto a bike path so traffic is about 90% bikes, 5% runners, 5% cars. That's my sister up ahead.



Mountains to the right



The town of Marshall



Heading east. The hill to the right has MTB trails that I like to ride on the way home.





Not a bad way to get to work!

More images here (with different seasons & different parts of the route including a couple of extended detours for fun )

Anne

[northstar]

WOW, Anne, too cool! Gorgeous scenery. You must be very relaxed at work.

[caribou]

I was going to wimp out and take the light rail to work today, but now I'll have to ride in to enjoy the sights and smells. Actually, the light rail station has the more dangerous smells: it's almost directly across from one of Sacramento's best high-class bakeries, and one of Sacramento's best low-class donut stands. I swear they purposely blow the smells over to the folks waiting for the train.

What I see on the bike commute: the beautiful old school turned into a community center near my house, a great crepe shoppe (uh-oh, more food), a busy slightly run down area near the freeway, quiet tree-lined residential streets with lovely c. 1900 homes and a few run-down ones, a house that looks c. 1905-15 that's getting completely rebuilt (all outside up, jacked up--it will be interesting to see if they restore it or destroy it with modernization), lots of piles of leaves this time of year in the bike lane-waiting for the yard waste recycle pickup, trash and recycling cans in the bike lane waiting for garbage day, parked cars to watch the doors on, the same older lady almost every day walking the neighborhood looking for aluminum cans to sell, busy cross streets, a little view of a corner of the state capitol, the business buildings of downtown, the Archive Plaza light rail station, and then the big ugly green 1964 monolith that's home for the next 9 hours.

Okay, time to get dressed and go see it!

[JmcG]

I see lots of things on my commute. I live in Alexandria, VA, so my commute takes me north along the Potomac River with a view of all the monuments across the river in DC. The best is when it's either dark and all the monuments are lit up, or the sun is just rising behind the monuments.

I then cross into Georgetown and ride down one of the main streets - M street - which is usually packed with people and cars, but not at 6am! It's wonderful to have the entire street to myself (mostly). Then I hop on another trail heading towards Bethesda, MD where I see deer almost every morning, sometimes foxes, blue herons, and sometimes homeless people sleeping alongside the trail. I pass through on old railroad tunnel before getting off the trail.

Once off the trail, I'm on a pretty busy road the last 6 miles of my commute into work. I pass Glen Echo park Glen Echo Park, a gas station that seems to always have the most expensive gas in the area- which is always fun to look at, a few markets and delis where I'll stop in to buy a lottery ticket if it's a big jackpot week, and finally I ride underneath the DC beltway before entering the gates into my work.

[mimitabby]

my DH, Raleighdon was thinking of taking a bunch of pictures of his winter commute, but you wouldn't see anything, it's dark both ways!