Took the Surly Trucker DeLuxe out Thursday afternoon, rolling across the land beach buggy fashion thanks to a pair of 559-55 Compass Rat Trap Pass Extralight tires. I rode as far as North Bridge, Concord, via Route 225, Skelton Road, River Road, and Monument Street outbound, back via Reformatory Branch, with the Minuteman coming and going because, why not. 31 miles through Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Carlisle, and Concord, not creative, but familiar, pleasant, and what I had the time and psychic energy for. Here's the bike at the literal high point of the ride, overlooking the Hutchins Farm fields from Monument Street.
In other news, both the Concord and Shawsheen Rivers are low, and the big old Catalpa trees are in bloom.
Also, the
First Sucking Mire and the
Second Sucking Mire, notorious mudholes on the Reformatory Branch, are temporarily dry, and I saw a Baltimore Oriole (but no pictures of that).
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