132nd ride

I was blessed this morning to go up to Brighton to ride with Kahle Strickland. Actually, I was doubly blessed—by both a glorious ride, and by Kahle's friendship. Starting out just a little past 7:00 a.m., we enjoyed riding in early morning sunshine and quiet—riding on the smooth paved roads of the Island Lake State Recreation Area, just east of Brighton, we hardly saw another soul, only a few other bikers and a couple of runners. We took it easy today, easing my way in, and my odometer showed a ride of 13.4 miles, in an hour and 3 minutes. But in the future we hope to chain this ride together with a ride along the path that runs under I-96 and joins it to the 8-mile loop at Kensington Metropark, and then perhaps also sometime to continue on to the small town of Milford.

POSTSCRIPT

Michelle and I did a short ride (1.6-mile round trip) down to Nick's House of Pancakes early this afternoon for a lovely lunch date.