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Riding uphill, one of the hills that always hurts. And I decided I would whip out my phone to take a picture of something. I just missed it, but I got this one instead, which is probably better.
You don’t often get the warning up ahead. And sometimes the lane ends, improbably, two-thirds of the way up the hill.
The best day to ride hills is the worst day to ride hills. The worst day to ride hills is the best day to ride hills.
I rode 30 miles on my bike today. Just enjoying a few big loops around the neighborhood, really.
I should have carried the cat along with me. She sometimes has extra water …
Also, she did this the other night:
Just 29 seconds of Allie, #TheBlackCat.
(She likes cheese flavors.) pic.twitter.com/MEObpMzlKl
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) April 30, 2016
She likes cheese flavors.
We went for a ride along the Chattahoochee River on Saturday, a nice 43-mile ride. The river looks like this:
And part of the ride looks like this:
Of course, as we have noted in this space before, we only go over there to ride for the breakfast. When in Columbus, visit the nice people at Plucked Up Chicken and Biscuits. You’ll thank me for it later.
Baseball that night:
And the days turn to nights and the days after, faster and faster.
There are four entries on the marker site for you to check out today. First, there’s The Bottle, which is one of those first curiosities you see in town if you come by a certain route.
Across the street is just a regular convenience store. On the sign you learn there that The Bottle, a place with a great deal of character to it in the old roadside Americana vein, burned in the 1930s. What’s there now is the most Alabama thing you could possibly do with the space. See more about The Bottle here.
See more about ths Rosenwald school here. The schools were named for Julius Rosenwald, president and later chairman of Sears Roebuck & Co., who, along with Booker T. Washington, started the program. There were more than 5,000 Rosenwald schools built nationally and a few hundred of those were established throughout Alabama. This was the first one. To read more about the Alabama version, click here. You can see a slightly better version of the photo in the marker here.
And just down the road from that is the Loachapoka Historic District. It was a railroad boom town, which meant it was also a railroad bust town. There are two markers within a few feet of one another here.
It’s a sleepy little piece of sand now. You can see the markers here. Also, in the local Native American dialect, Muskogee, Loachapoka means “turtle killing place.”
When you have the chance to take a lazy trip around town on your bicycle just because, you should take it. You get good views if you stick your head into the wind and look around:
I write this down just because I have to somehow remind myself of this from time to time.
Here’s another thing I should remind myself about. One of my favorite things about Great Big Story is how they use crafted visuals to help tell their story. Like this one, for example.
