After another delicious breakfast at Limonata in Nob Hill (you should check the place out), I rode a bit in the elevating heat before deciding to shorten things northerly before heading back to my South Valley. Instead of taking the North Diversion Channel Trail all the way to Paseo, I dared to ride Candelaria from NDC west through to Edith and 2nd to what’s now part of the Alameda Drain Trail and further west through Thomas Village and the connector to the Bosque Path.

You know, something like this:

I put a black box around the little wrinkle one must take up 2nd Street before catching the Alameda Drain Trail going west. A box fits this stretch well because a coffin is also a box. The stretch is a true death-trap, yet one that is also designated as an official “Bike Route” as seen here:

Yup, 2nd Street is a “Bike Route” with about 20,000 vehicles a day and nary a bike lane in sight. Combine that with this “lovely” combo of telephone pole and “Bike Route” sign doubly blocking the not-really-ADA-compliant-anyway-in-terms-of-width sidewalk, and you get my single “favorite” collection of roadway infrastructure in all of Albuquerque.

It’s like a living museum of roadway shittification.

Nevertheless, like just about all bike rides, it was a great bike ride. The worst one, at least so far in my fifty or so years of riding, has still been pretty damn good.

Enjoy the weekend, everyone. See you at “No Kings” (which is tomorrow’s “Today’s Ride”).