solstice ride bike yay

yay bike ride. after a boring boring day at work, it was just what i needed to lift the spirits.

this was really one of the first recreational rides i've been on all season, having been sick for quite a long while. the weather was quite lovely on the day of summer solstice. i caught the tail end of a pedalpalooza event and went on this litle group ride that widened my horizons of what is arguably relatively limited knowledge of places to ride my bike other than down to the transit center. so now i know all about the walkways over on the west bank and the east bank esplanade. I had no idea it continued on all the way down by hawthorne. awesome!

sitting there by the hawthorne bridge watching the sun set over the backs of people rowing skiffs was rather sublime. i rode across the hawthorne bridge for the first time and down through the fountain at the bottom before heading back home.