2006-05-05T06:44:42Ztag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/my_biking_adventuretag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/92/3272006-05-05T06:44:42ZHarp<p>I've discovered the joys of biking here in Japan, too. Once my bottom got used to the bike seat I've had nothing but fun exploring and biking to regular destinations. The only exception is when it rains. I haven't found a nice solution for that yet. Mom, you'll be happy to know that the bike trip my friend and I were planning fell through. It involved going through a number of tunnels, and you think one bridge is bad! I got a phone call from my friend after her first tunnel experience and she said it was the scariest thing she'd ever done, and that's saying something for her. I got cold feet. I would like to do some long distance biking someday, though. However, for my first experience I'd like some nice roads!</p>tag:sursumcorda.salemsattic.com,2018:/isso/92/3262006-05-04T18:26:53ZJon Daley<p>It reminds me of a time three of us decided to bike up to a friend's house, probably 50 miles away. We were going on reasonably small roads the whole way and then on a bike trail, so we didn't check our route beforehand. When we were about 10 miles from our destination, there was a sign that said, &quot;bike trail closed ahead&quot;, but there weren't any alternatives (the trail rides along route 89, where bikes also aren't allowed) so we kept going. There was construction on the highway, so they were using the bike trail as a parking lot (for some unexplained reason they didn't just use the gobs of space all over the place).<br> My friend said we couldn't go through, but I figured we could just walk the 50 feet around the truck. While we were standing there, a construction guy on the highway noticed us and started yelling, but he was too far away to hear, and I was for just going ahead anyway, but was out-voted.<br> So, we went back a ways, and called our destination from an animal shelter, and they came and picked us and our bikes and drove the last bit.<br> We are totally mystified why the trail was closed, and what they were thinking by closing 20 miles trail for 50 feet, and not having any alternatives to go around it.<br> We spent the night there, and then brought 3 girls back home with us, going a different route, which was okay, though went through Washington, NH, which is fairly high, and especially at the end of the trip, and even more so because 3 or 4 of the 6 people hadn't ever biked more than 10 miles or so. But, we made it, and had a fair amount of fun doing so.</p>