At only three months in, I’m still at that vengeful stage of retirement in which one looks at their watch on a weekday mid-morning, remembers what one used to be doing at that precise time (“Tuesday at 10:37 A.M, smack-dab in the middle of Third Period teaching!”) and busts out laughing maniacally. I was here… Read More Slow Cycling Chronicles: East Corrales

I’ve been thinking a lot about visual art lately, a notable difference in mindset as I’m tend to be remarkably unobservant of my visual surroundings. Many reasons have led to this elevation in seeing what’s around me, including a trip to Albuquerque Museum to see the dreadful Georgia O’Keeffe/Henry Moore exhibition. I miss going to… Read More Bosque, Gated Communities and other Slow Cycling Venues

Okay. My public meeting vacation is over. For a bunch of reasons probably understandable to anyone who has ever atttended a public meeting on transportation issues, I’ve taken a pretty long break from attending public meetings on transportation issues. Barring a last-minute returning to my senses, I’m returning from public meeting vacation tonight to hear… Read More Tonight’s Public Meeting on Blake Rd. S.W.

It didn’t occur to me that I had been cycling between the green curve of prehistory and what’s left of post-capitalist America until I got home and saw the route map: Squigging slowly through the gap between Petroglyph National Monument and Ladera Golf Course, there are neighborhoods and neighbors not unlike just about all of… Read More Slow Cycling Chronicles: Between Green Curves

It’s always a good bike ride when you come across views like these: I’ll leave picking order of niceness among the photos above to you, but all also perfectly fit in yesterday’s geographically and socio-economically wide-ranging slow ride stretching from the bourgeois 60s privileged comfort of Four Hills Country Club to the beauty amid the… Read More Slow Cycling Chronicles: Four Hills and Trumbull

Just about nothing beats cycling through a golf course parking lot. Really. Naturally, when you decide to ride pretty much every street in pretty much every part of town, you get to some neighborhoods later than others. Factors like distance from one’s own home and public transportation come into play. There are also factors like… Read More Cycling Chronicles: Paradise Hills & Cottonwood Mall