Just under 5 little miles around town today running errands with my trailer
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. I'm getting the hang of it - it's been much easier than I anticipated! My only issue was Google maps - I was experimenting with it, and it routed me to the UPS store (for evil Amazon returns) via a fairly busy 4 lane street that I would need to cross traffic to make a left turn. It knew I was on the bike! Fortunately, the city is pretty small and I've lived here since 1976, so I knew how to take quieter parallel streets. After leaving the store, stopped by one of our local parks for a picture on this beautiful day! Holland Gardens is a tulip display arranged around a pretty, nonfunctioning windmill. Though the first Euro settlers were Irish, the Dutch came soon after and took over the town
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. We have quite a little Dutch festival every spring to honor that heritage (the Irish get St Patrick's Day, complete with parade and Mayor kissing the local "blarney stone).
From the park, I headed over to the base to visit the exchange (department store) and commissary (grocery store). They are definitely lacking bike racks, but there was plenty of steel fence pipe to lock to
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Again, didn't do a huge shop, but everything fit in the trailer - especially my very important half case of vino rosso
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. Once my cargo net arrives, I'll be able to stack stuff up higher and not sorry about it falling out or off!
The morning was mild and sunny, perfect to be out on the La Free!
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