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Long Drive Recap

The drive from Methuen, MA to New Bedford, MA:

103.1 miles in one hour and 48 minutes. The GPS app (Waze) took me through a couple of weird routes, but there wasn’t any traffic at all.

The drive from New Bedford, MA to Methuen, MA:

93.8 miles in one hour and 28 minutes. The GPS took me on exactly the route I would have expected.

The total drive:

196.9 miles in three hours and 17 minutes.

In closing, here are a few toy camera app (Hipstamatic) pics from the gas station near our house that I stopped at as I was leaving on today’s drive.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54434857968/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54434609901/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54434976825/in/datetaken/

Flickr218/365By robj_1971

Do the Right Thing?

I don’t want to go into details but here’s the deal.

I have something to do tomorrow and I don’t want to do it. Originally, the plan was for my wife and I to do it together. It involves driving for an hour and a half, doing something that may not take a lot of time, and then driving home for an hour and a half. As of now though, my beloved bride needs to work tomorrow so if this happens it will be me doing it alone.

So there are two options. One, I do the right thing and I go and do this task. Two, I don’t do it and I stay home and run errands for my wife and just be here with her, which is absolutely what I want to do.

Frustrated sigh… If I do this then it will help someone out and if I believed in karma (which I absolutely do not) then it would be a good thing for everyone, karmically speaking (is karmically a word?). I just selfishly do not want to do it because it is going to take up the entire afternoon and most of the evening and I really just want to spend time with my wife.

I am probably going to do it. Like I said, it’s the right thing. The other person involved has already done a similar thing for me. It’s only right and proper for me to do the same in return. I just don’t want to spend three hours in the car round trip.

Ugh… I didn’t expect this post to feel so negative. I really just thought it would be an unemotional stating of the two sides of the coin and instead I feel like this reads like I am pissed off and defeated by the situation. It’s not that big a deal. For me, it’s not that big a deal. For the other folks involved it is, but me being involved is a microscopic piece of it. Ugh… I don’t know what I am saying anymore. I’ll shut up now.

On the upside, the Boston Bruins appear to be putting an end to their 10 game losing streak by beating the shit out of the Whalers tonight. Too bad it’s WAY too late to have any meaning. Ugh. The Red Sox got rained out today so they are going to play a double header tomorrow. Maybe things will go well and we’ll get to spank St Louis twice in one Sunday. That’d be nice.

I'm quite good at mornings.

I seem to survive them. My track record is solid.

Of course, all it takes to ruin a streak of surviving is one instance of not surviving. There was that one morning 13 years ago, a close call, as they say. I haven't driven a car since then, even though the insurance company gave me a new one.

Back to my point: I am quite good at mornings.

#GloriaGaynor #IWillSurvive

#drive#driving#car

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The challenge is not distance, it's maintaining the drive to go ahead despite facing adversity - Hitchhiking turns out is more difficult than finding a friendly bike shop to stay open later to replace a wheel. 60km outside Sudbury.
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Moments of #solitude, #peace and #quiet between hard days of #riding (up to 240km and 12h days sometimes, offered proper healing for the body and the mind that I so needed.

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All that goes up must come down. A recurrent theme of crossing the Coastal, Kootenays, and Rocky mountains on a #bicycle.

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