Bikes, Bugs, ...and Goggles?

Jumping on my bike, I decided to take the alternative form of transportation to work as the day was beautiful. I pedaled along the bike path at an easy speed.  The slight breeze kissing my face as I reached the bridge over the sky blue water. I pondered in awe the creation around me.

Sometimes in life, it is good to take the slower path. To be able to actually "smell the roses", and think about where you've been, where you are, and where you're going.

I ride along, serious in thought and contemplation, when all of a sudden a rabbit jumps in front of me! I swerve in fear of being thrown over the handles of my bike as I ramp off the back of a rabbit!! I think this year has got to be a record breaking year in the production of rabbits! Every corner I took, there was a rabbit jumping into the bushes to hide from the impending doom from two large round rubber bands streaking by at unparalleled speeds. What a tragic story that would be in the history of the rabbit family!

As I reach work, I dreamily gaze out the window all day in regret that I cannot be out enjoying the perfect summer weather that we seem to be currently enjoying, and that only happens a few days out of the year in Michigan! 70's, sunny, and a slight breeze! Aaahhh...  ...back to work.  I can only look forward to my ride home.

Enthusiastically I lock up the building as the sky glows a magnificent, almost neon, pink. I head out on my two wheeled transportation to take in the end of a beautiful day.

I ride along, head high, breathing in deep the fresh air when...cough, gasp...squint!!!!  I've run into a large swarm of small flies!!! As I shake my head from the last of them, a second wave hits me squarely in the face!  As I ride along, I find that this phenomena does not occur just by the water, as I first hypothesized.  No, all the way home I was hitting swarms of little flies, who somehow fly precisely at the very altitude at which my face happens to be when I am seated on my bike!

Squinting my eyes all the way home, I finally arrived, having had my portion of protein for the day. I have concluded from this eventful ride that perhaps I should include goggles in my next evening bike excursion!