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Published On: Jul 13, 2004 09:29 AM
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Published On: Jul 13, 2004 09:29 AM
Cycling is fun (by Anthony M. Humphreys)
Cycling is
fun.
My wife and I both like to ride our bikes. We like to ride around our neighbourhood and around our city. We've even taken our camping gear along on our bikes and ridden long distances just for something to do. We live in a big city (Toronto), and on our bikes we can explore the city in ways that's just not possible with a car. My wife loves history, and I love trivia, and we ride around the city giving ourselves historical tours and odd bits of trivia about the buildings, neighbourhoods and other things we encounter along the way.
My wife and I both like to ride our bikes. We like to ride around our neighbourhood and around our city. We've even taken our camping gear along on our bikes and ridden long distances just for something to do. We live in a big city (Toronto), and on our bikes we can explore the city in ways that's just not possible with a car. My wife loves history, and I love trivia, and we ride around the city giving ourselves historical tours and odd bits of trivia about the buildings, neighbourhoods and other things we encounter along the way.
Yesterday we packed up the three
kids onto the bike. Well, actually two go
into the trailer and the third is in a seat on the rear rack. We went for about an hour's ride. We went to a park that's nearby. We've ridden through the park before, but only to get through the park. It's a big park, recently dedicated, and it's right on the lake. It's called Colonel Samuel Smith Park
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/parks_gardens/colsamsmith.htm
It's a bigger park, and while we have ridden through it, we never actually rode around within it, until yesterday.
The park is about a 15 minute bike ride from our house. The temperature was wonderful, the sky was a clear blue, and planes were leaving contrails that lingered as they passed overhead. There was no breeze in the air.
We were going to ride through that park and go to a different park further on, but we were time limited. I suggested to my wife that instead on continuing on to the other park, we stay and discover this one. She thought that this was a good idea. The little ones were asleep, it was their first nap of the day, in spite of it being later in the day. We took a trail in the park that we had not been on before, and we explored.
We went out on to one point, and we saw the man-made harbour and the lonely sail boats still in the water waiting to be removed for the winter. As there was no breeze, they were sitting very idle, quiet.
We rode out to the other side, out on to the peninsula that encloses the harbour. We stopped on the way to read the dedication plaque.As werode around on the other penisula we enjoyed the view of amist hovering on the water on the lake, brought to us by the warming sun's rays on the water. The mist obscured the horizon, and in the mist we saw a sailboat looking like it was flying just above the horizon. Well not flying so much as levitating. It was stunning.
The harbour was all man made, and the colours of the stones and rocks that were once bricks was a sight to behold, we could see it all clearly through the still water. Some people had made delicate sculptures with the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the rocky stone shores, which we enjoyed as we rode by.
There were big colourful butterflies everywhere, and we stirred some of them up while we rode. The leaves are only beginning to change colours. We rode by people who were walking or jogging or sitting on the benches enjoying the view, and they were smiling as they said a friendly 'Hello' to us as we passed by. We returned the greetings.
We went back further inland to discover other trails that we had not ridden on before. Some trails are paved, other are lined only with fine gravel. The bikes rode over it all with equal ease, and allowed us to enjoy the smells of the bushes as we passed.
Alas, the parent of the child that we are looking after would be coming by our home to pick up their child, and so we had to leave before fully discovering this park. But you know that we'll be back, and soon. There's much more of the inland portion of this park that we have not yet seen. And you know that we'll want to enjoy more of the lake views.
Yes, cycling is fun, and that's why we ride.
into the trailer and the third is in a seat on the rear rack. We went for about an hour's ride. We went to a park that's nearby. We've ridden through the park before, but only to get through the park. It's a big park, recently dedicated, and it's right on the lake. It's called Colonel Samuel Smith Park
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/parks_gardens/colsamsmith.htm
It's a bigger park, and while we have ridden through it, we never actually rode around within it, until yesterday.
The park is about a 15 minute bike ride from our house. The temperature was wonderful, the sky was a clear blue, and planes were leaving contrails that lingered as they passed overhead. There was no breeze in the air.
We were going to ride through that park and go to a different park further on, but we were time limited. I suggested to my wife that instead on continuing on to the other park, we stay and discover this one. She thought that this was a good idea. The little ones were asleep, it was their first nap of the day, in spite of it being later in the day. We took a trail in the park that we had not been on before, and we explored.
We went out on to one point, and we saw the man-made harbour and the lonely sail boats still in the water waiting to be removed for the winter. As there was no breeze, they were sitting very idle, quiet.
We rode out to the other side, out on to the peninsula that encloses the harbour. We stopped on the way to read the dedication plaque.As werode around on the other penisula we enjoyed the view of amist hovering on the water on the lake, brought to us by the warming sun's rays on the water. The mist obscured the horizon, and in the mist we saw a sailboat looking like it was flying just above the horizon. Well not flying so much as levitating. It was stunning.
The harbour was all man made, and the colours of the stones and rocks that were once bricks was a sight to behold, we could see it all clearly through the still water. Some people had made delicate sculptures with the flotsam and jetsam washed up on the rocky stone shores, which we enjoyed as we rode by.
There were big colourful butterflies everywhere, and we stirred some of them up while we rode. The leaves are only beginning to change colours. We rode by people who were walking or jogging or sitting on the benches enjoying the view, and they were smiling as they said a friendly 'Hello' to us as we passed by. We returned the greetings.
We went back further inland to discover other trails that we had not ridden on before. Some trails are paved, other are lined only with fine gravel. The bikes rode over it all with equal ease, and allowed us to enjoy the smells of the bushes as we passed.
Alas, the parent of the child that we are looking after would be coming by our home to pick up their child, and so we had to leave before fully discovering this park. But you know that we'll be back, and soon. There's much more of the inland portion of this park that we have not yet seen. And you know that we'll want to enjoy more of the lake views.
Yes, cycling is fun, and that's why we ride.
Posted: Wed - October 8, 2003 at 09:47 AM