Home bike rides you'll miss

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I sometimes wish I'd taken up cycling while I was still living at home...my neighborhood is an excellent workout (lots of hills), and we have well-maintained bike trail that goes through a state park and runs alongside the Little Miami River. There are several small towns that it runs through, and it wasn't a long drive from my house. It's beautiful in October when the leaves change. It doesn't have the color variety that areas further north do (it's mostly yellow-orange or brown), but it would be a nice ride nonetheless.

BF is from the Phoenix area, and I know he misses a few of his routes. The first time I visited him, he drove me along the route of his first road ride that he did with his Boy Scout troop. I told him I thought he was crazy. This was before I got bitten by the cycling bug. I still think he's crazy, just not for that reason!

It certainly is tougher to persuade someone of a lovely bike route if one is seeing for lst time in a car!

Like you, I returned to cycling later (well, alot later than you) in a different city. I did wonder what the experience would be like in the original city/area as an adult, where I grew up (and did bike as a teen, but limited to near home).

So several yrs. after cycling bug bit me, we went on our own self-made bike tour trip through Mennonite countryside, etc. I deliberately chose that we cycle in the fall and it was gorgeous and better particularily on bike. Except I hadn't anticipated transport trucks on a certain stretch of highway. Or how much of the farmland that I remembered as a late teen, was overtaken by shopping mall, surburban development.

Still..we did the wooden covered bridges, etc. It was revisiting an area I had forgotten abit but from the perspective of bike saddle.