I found a new road while I was racing the last little bit of sunlight this evening. It was somewhere just after I pedaled my way past this field. I turned right on a road I’ve been on maybe three times, but it didn’t look familiar. Knowing it was already after 7 p.m., it didn’t seem like the right time to get lost. I’d left my headlight on the kitchen counter after all.
So I turned around, got back to where the two roads diverged, and instead of going right, which was correct, I went left, which was new to me. Also, it was a bit shorter, which probably worked out well. This is how much light I had two miles from home.
That’s fine, but there’s a little you have to go down, and immediately come back up the side, all of which is under a thick canopy. And the road is usually dodgy with gravel and grit. This you don’t want to ride in almost dark. It may as well be a guess. Today it was that guess, I guess, that narrowly avoided longer route, but for that turnaround, that kept me out of the dark.
The road less traveled was less interesting than the one I wanted, but it got me where I needed to go, and a few minutes and miles faster.
So that worked out.
I’m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I’m sharing extra videos that we didn’t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won’t you?
This tidy, secluded, little spot is Malainn Bhig.
