Dilemma Dileeema

[shootingstar]

If you think you might not be able to make it all the way and go only halfway, do you think you could find your way back on your own by bike?

True that Singapore seems like city-country and this may make it very small as a country. But the same area of Singapore conceivably is similar in size for whole areas that some of us where we live in the U.S. or Canada where we confine geographically most of the time, our solo cycling within same area as Singapore-- except our local region covers multiple cities/municipalities adjacent to one another. And in some areas there's bush areas, natural water bodies and other natural barriers sprinkled all over the region with different road grades and widths, which require some route planning or exploration.

Occasionally I curse that Canada (and U.S.) are so geographically huge that on bike, sometimes it feels as if it takes eons to cycle to get out of the big city to experience a totally different region of Canada.

Obviously you know Singapore very well geographically or else you wouldn't be bored cycling in Singapore alot. Or what it is that bores you about cycling in Singapore that maybe we don't quite get?

After being and cycling regularily in Vancouver for over 7 years, I still feel I only know less than 25% of Metro Vancouver (which includes City of Vancouver plus 22 other municipalties all around us). One can cycle a round trip in our region for a 100+ km. trip and you would have passed through 8 different municipalities some of which do have a distinct "flavour".

For me, there are whole chunks yet to be explored locally on bike and I'm not even talking about the local mountains (of which that would be more hiking. I'm not a mountain biker.) that we can see when looking out from our home.

Unlike you, I'm guilty that I STILL haven't cycled our own region thoroughly to understand the whole general street/road layout. After all, I don't drive.

But I'm not bored by cycling some set routes that I do regularily, since the seasons change and same scenery changes as well as surroundings look different at different times of day.

Cycling helps me see/appreciate the same thing in different ways. Or maybe Singapore has too many people along certain routes to make it comfortable?