500 Miles!

I'm honestly not trying to make a habit of this, writing right after Dixie does. Maybe her telling me about her dream caused some subliminal need for me to write every time she does. But actually I'm writing this now, cause she mentioned in her last post that she was going to write more details, so I'm hoping to get this in before her next one, so hers will be on top for a while.

I just had to share a personal milestone I hit today. 500 miles on my bike! Well, since I started tracking it anyway. I've got a little speedometer on my bike that tracks all my miles and other stuff. I started tracking it some time last summer when I started commuting to work. For your information, 500 miles is about the distance from here to Nebraska. Or Kansas, whichever floats your boat. It also happens to be about the width of Egypt.

Also, I've seen a couple weird things the last few days of my commute. On Monday, I saw not one, but TWO Walmart shopping carts on the side of my bike trail. And they weren't anywhere close to a Walmart. I kept wondering how them little guys got so far away from home!

And then this morning I saw an old dude walking backwards across a bridge. I think he was doing it for exercise or something. Just strange. But now I can't figure out if he was on the correct side of the road or not. You're supposed to bike on the right, walk/jog on the left. So I was on the right side of the road, about to cross over I-15 on the Church St. bridge. But he was on the sidewalk that goes across the bridge on the same side. Since his back was to me, I figured he was walking away from me, on the WRONG side of the road. (not that anybody really cares what side of the road you're on when you're walking) But anyway, I crossed the road so I could go across the bridge on the other side, I really wanted to stay on the sidewalk across the bridge, cause it's kind of narrow. So as I was passing him, I looked across the street, and realized that he was walking backwards.

So he was on the right side of the road relative to him, but he was walking backwards, so technically I guess he was on the left side of the road, relative to the direction he was walking. So which side was he on? I'm confused.