The past couple of weeks I’ve actually made a conscious effort to get back on my bike after letting it lie out to fallow ensconced in cobwebs during my first semester of grad school.

Have I just forgotten how pervasive traffic is even in the rural areas surrounding Durham/Chapel Hill, or are we totally overrun with the vehicular menace? I thought, “Hey, it’s a weekday and the afternoon. The roads will be all mine!” Wrong! Even at 2pm up near Butner or Hillsborough on back roads the traffic kept coming. And coming. I was trying to have a conversation with our new tenant/fellow Cooperstown transplant/younger doppelganger Ben and it was hard to actually ride side by side without getting buzzed by cars. What are all these people doing in the middle of a weekday afternoon driving around in the middle of nowhere? I guess I’ve always had this odd notion that the roads were like school hallways. When everyone’s in class, the halls are deserted. Therefore if everyone’s at work, the roads should be deserted. Oh well, so much for that idea…