Memorial Day

Standing in the driveway afterwards

This time I added panniers and dropped a few more things in the bob trailer. It’s getting ever closer to the real deal but the planning part has gotten more complicated but I wasn’t worrying about that at all as I got ready to ride this morning.  For a change of scenery, I rode the aqueduct north, weaving my way carefully among an unending stream of walkers and joggers.  The bell proved invaluable and I took it slowly and said ‘howdy’ and ‘good morning’ to all and sundry.  In Tarrytown, I climbed up and over to Marymount College campus (now part of Fordham), and cycled along the path by the reservoir before cutting over to the North County Trailway (map here).  I took this north to Pace on 117 before heading all the way back to Hastings.

Necessities:  I definitely need to replace the bash guard with a big ring.  Otherwise my knees hurt above about 16 mph — too little resistance!  I’ll keep the bash guard around for whenever I let the ‘dawg’ back out!

Joys:  Public radio out of Fordham playing old rock and roll concert cuts; chatting with a few people along the way about places to ride and bucket lists.

Photo:  My daughter Andrea took this one as I was putting stuff away after the ride this morning.  It’s a sandwich:  the base photo, with a vignette made in slate grey; the next layer is a vintage effect from Andrea Rascaglia (deviant art link here).  I made this layer partially transparent and erased part of the center to let the image bleed through.  I selected myself and copied this to a new layer above the vintage one (now on our third layer).  This let’s the figure of the cyclist ‘pop’ out from the background.  Finally, I laid a Polaroid C frame on top (also from Rascaglia).  Flatten, sharpen, resize, mini sharpen, and bam.  Time for bed.  Again.