TRIP 1: My first serious trip was down to Bethany CT to see Terese. Round trip it is a 66 mile trip. The first time I made the trip down was at night which was fine until my light went out right as I was hitting the small mountain that Terese lives on the other side of. Short of 750 feet of elevation in less than a mile, no light, no shoulder… no crying? But, when I got there it was rewarding.
\nThe return trip was a bit more ridiculous. I left and made great time. I decided to stop at a random gas station to top off the tires since I have done n0 maintenance thus far this year. After speaking with Rolando he assured me that I shouldn\u2019t have a problem using a gas station air pump. Skip ahead 5 minutes and I had given myself a flat tire. Rolando couldn\u2019t pick me up because I had taken the car keys with me (the whole point of me taking the bike was so Rolando could use the car, but so much for that \uf04c ) so after walking a mile with the my bike and self inflicted flat tire I hitched a ride with a nice round jolly man in a red pickup truck to the nearest bike shop 3 miles away to have them fill my flat. To my unsurprise they couldn\u2019t find anything wrong with my tire\u2026 TRIP 1 SUCCESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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