Visitors asking us locals down here in ABQ’s South Valley “How do I get to Trader Joe’s?” are met with that human equivalent of the quizzical turn of the dog’s head. “Huh?” is the typical South Valley response, as it is for questions regarding: My South Valley excels as a place to live in many… Read More Trader Joe’s via Dragon Arroyo

Not really a fan of folks having more money or house than they need, but a certain symbiosis exists between cheapskate cyclists (me) and rich people who buy big houses away from the riff-raff in town. Enclaves such as Las Campanas outside of Santa Fe combine very low-density housing with nearly untraveled paved roads. Thus,… Read More Cycling Las Campanas

Each personal social circle is different; the folks/family with whom I spend time generally think I’m at least a little crazy for riding my bicycle places. That sentiment of crazy is pretty much never expressed until it comes to me riding at night. Then the “I can put your bike in my truck and take… Read More Bosque Trail: The Night Time is the Right Time

I’d like to report this as “Winrock Mall closes street to vehicular traffic to create pedestrian mall,” but the fact drivers can’t turn from Pennsylvania NE into Winrock isn’t about us/that. Well, at least directly. While I very much enjoyed seeing drivers prevented from turning off Pennsylvania NE into Winrock while I took this photo… Read More Free Walking/Rolling at Winrock Mall

For reasons that are all too painfully needed, everywhere you look these days there seems to be another protest of the worst president ever. I support them all and have attended a few so far, looking forward to both the next one and the time, seemingly way, way down the road these days, where we… Read More Roadways and the Two Types of Presidential Protest

Apologies to folks who consider the edge of the universe home, but riding buddy and I rode bicycles out to the edge of the universe yesterday, i.e., Paseo del Norte and Universe/Rainbow/Unser. The route went something like this: No, we were not drunk (thanks for asking), riding buddy and I just tend to ride crazily… Read More Cycling at the edge of the Paseo/Unser Universe