Today is their first day of school but I've already forgotten what today actually is. It's Thursday the 28th of August and I'm starting to work my way back home after a couple of more stops. Time to say my goodbyes to Melissa and Steffen and the kids. Bev wasn't aware that Steffen and I had already gone out for breakfast and she was cooking up a pile of bacon. I stopped by my granddaughters to drop off the helmet she used to wear when she first started riding with me. I took this picture of her brand new bicycle. I wanted a picture of it turning 160,000 miles but there were no safe places to pull over until now, which was about fifty feet farther than I wanted to be. Oh well, probably still better to be alive. This tire store belongs to my friend Doug's brother. It is a beautiful morning for a ride, nice and cool. 4.1 miles waters edge to waters edge across this bridge. The raised portions are over the dredged channels of the river. Any ship in this low area of the ...