Commute yesterday was long but fun. I was just getting ready to ride home when DS, now 15 and taller than his mom, calls and says he would like to go swimming with me at a certain lake and he would like to ride his bike there, taking the long way through the woods that takes almost an hour, even though there's a bus that would take him right there... It was a massive detour for me but I couldn't possibly refuse.

So an hour's ride to the lake, 20 minutes there until the sun disappeared behind the trees and 45 minutes home again with my big, longlegged, suddenly way too fit son