Don't usually post my rides, but love to read about others.
I'm posting this for an odd reason, to describe the roads. Roads around here are just plain awful. To get anywhere from my housing community requires a ride on a winding 50 mph very narrow 2-lane road with no shoulder (none, zilch, not even a hint). I once got a 2nd degree burn down my arm from the heat coming off of a truck’s tailpipe. This road is well-used by cyclist because it’s really the only way to get from one town to another.
The last 2 years this has all been made much worse by road construction. I haven’t commuted into work yet this year, I can’t figure out how to get there on a bike, last Wednesday the detour had a detour!
Anyway, this morning I decided to see what they had been doing for the last 2 years, extending the aforementioned narrow road the opposite direction toward the next town. I made a loop, going down to the other town, then back over, and up this new extension.
WOW! It’s still narrow and winding and 50 mph, but it has the most beautiful shoulder I think I’ve ever seen.
I’m so happy I’m beside myself. I can’t wait to see what they are doing with the rest. I’m even less upset about all of the dirt, blowing dust, and the detours – if this is the outcome.
Sorry to ramble, never though a shoulder on a road could be so pretty.