Yesterday’s “No Kings” event at Mariposa Basin Park was a tremendous display of widespread activism, and, as is true for just about any activity, it was even better on a bicycle.

Riding up the Bosque Path in ~100 degree heat, there were few other cyclists heading northerly. I wondered if they were also going to the event, and also wondered if many folks would show up at all in these temps.

Then I got to Montano and saw the vehicle traffic backed up well past the River. Then I knew.

My version of attending such an event is to walk the bike back and forth around the periphery of things (see squiggles above). Yesterday’s periphery around the thousands of attendees was large, including steady human streams of ingress/egress as motoring protestors found a place to park (eventually), visited until the heat got too much, and made the long to really long trek back to their cars.

I should have made a sign for the event, but what I really should have done was print up about 10,000 little strips of paper. Each strip would have said:

“Don’t you wish you’d cycled here instead?”

I peripheried for about 90 minutes, then dropped down via La Orilla to the bike path, stopping off at Cocina Azul at 12th and Mountain for some cool AC and some tasty hot posole and chips.

A really good day, again made even better by bike.