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Winding Country Road or 50 mph Highway with Shoulder?
Originally Posted by mr_bill
Yeah.

If you are going nowhere, sometimes you choose the roads.
If you are going somewhere, sometimes the roads choose you.

-mr. bill
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
All my cycling as a decades-long, year-round commuter and occasional centurian in Metro Boston ranges from dense urban, to suburban, to exurban, but no rural.

I'm goal-oriented, be it miles or destinations, so I take the Road as it comes, to satisfy my Goal.
Sometime ago, on a philosophical bent, I posted to make this comparison of free will to determinism; that on the Road, like in Life you freely choose a Destination, but then you’re constrained by the available Roads, some well-paved, and some torn up with potholes and heavy speeding speeding traffic.

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