Sculpin

Today we had our first real trip on the tandem! We went to yoga and back on it, a distance of just over 2.5 miles round-trip. This involved a lot of firsts: first ride in light traffic; first ride after dark; first time at a stoplight; first time with an unleashed dog in the street. We made it up one fairly respectable little hill, too.

It was pretty easy! I think we’re doing very well. And it’s still a lot of fun. I loved riding at dusk. I’m particularly pleased because I wasn’t at 100% today, but still it was no trouble getting there and back. I was pretty pale and nervous before we set off, but it was much easier than I thought it’d be.

I mention the stoplight because that was the one time I was discombobulated. Without leaning well to the side, I can’t see the stoplights until we’re right up at them, it turns out. We got to the intersection and the light was yellow, not green. How long it’d been yellow, I had no idea, and to my fevered imagination the light was just about to turn red and we were going to blow halfway through the intersection and be crushed, crushed!! “AAAAUUGHHH!!” I bellowed. We stopped.

We could both use some more practice taking the tandem through intersections. (I will not forget to pay more attention to stoplights.) Our next goal is to take 20th a good way further south and have a treat at the Ravenna Boulevard Grocery. After that we’ll stretch ourselves and hit the farmers market.

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