If I cannot bike to work it is a good time to call in sick. And what a beautiful day to be sacked on the futon! Head winds and torrents of rain. Lovely to watch but a bit happy not to be biking in. I passed the time with Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne. 30 years of pedaling through cities around the world with the bonus of mind rambles while in the saddle. It is sad there are so few bike journals published, but an exciting discovery when I stubble upon a new one.

I know I need to be healthy come Monday so I opted to ride the ‘free metro’ to the library today. That is I walk to 3rd & Bell>bus to the library>bus to 3rd & Bell and walk home. On the way home I once again became trapped by one of the many pedestrian obstacles created by construction. At the end of the block they had built one of those pedestrian tunnels to ’shield’ the ped from the construction sight. This one creating an obese pond with the width spreading from sidewalk to the far lane of the road. I could backtrack (something I seldom do) and cross to the other side then walk 2 block to be able to cross back, walk down the middle of the Ave around the pond, walk through the tunnel and be drowned by passing cars boating through the pond…

– or – there were no signs stating that the tunnel was to be walked ‘through only’ and never over. So I climbed up the skinny green brace and took the top of the tunnel!

Me, at 50!
And found a way down at the end and never dampened my shoes.

Me, at 50! It felt so good.

Cute video on how to get the green lights switches in and around Seattle. Can’t wait to try it tomorrow trying to get out of the Westlake stroll to 8th Ave.