People

I love people. Its one of the reasons I like traveling so much, meeting a variety of people with different backgrounds.

And sometimes I forget that interesting people are everywhere.

Today I was perusing the local freecycle when I saw that someone was offering a hitch mounted bike rack.  Since I recently got a bike off of freecycle, this sounnded like the perfect thing.  I shot off an email and recieved a phone call a short while later.  The rack was mine, woo hoo!  I told Terry that we needed to go pick this up, when he informed me that we don't have a reciever hitch on the Suzuki . . .

Duh, I guess that was one of our other cars.

Embarrassed beyond belief, I called the woman back and admitted my idiotic mistake.  We got to talking and since she seemed quite knowledgeable about bikes, I asked her about helmets.  She told me she was a serious bicyclist (is that the word?) and yes, I definitely needed a helmet.  In fact, she had a spare if I would like to pick it up.  Happy to do so, I went over to her house to pick up my new bike helmet.

Wow, what an interesting woman.   Shes is, indeed, a serious biker.  She has ridden across the US twice, and had such wonderful stories to share.  Like RVers, it seems bikers have a whole subculture, sharing routes, tips and all the things that tie a group of people together.  Who'd a thunk?

We spent an hour or so chatting and it opened my heart once again.  I love meeting new people.  It reminded me of why I love travels so much.

It was a lovely afternoon and I want to thank Susan for sharing a small part of her life with me.

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 And because I can, 

I thought I'd share a few pictures I took 

of rain dew on the local shrubbery.

All these were taken with my iPhone.

  

I'm always attracted to this kind of shot.

This one shows the dew on a spider web.

That's it for today.