Remembering the discovery made on last Sunday's bike ride to and from 8:00 Mass, this morning's ride took an alternate route: off onto the service road, around the service gate, and through the park campground area. This is a much better route, providing a more pleasant biking environment, and eliminating almost a mile of biking up and down a long hill, for my aging legs.
I check at the ranger station to make sure this is OK with them, and am told quite warmly that bicyclists are always welcome to use the park grounds,
free of charge. Ah, that's more like it - a balm to my social humanity, and antidote to the sense of alienation.
On the return trip after Mass, I take more time to ride slowly here and there on the park trails, enjoying the rather spectacular vistas provide by Nature, and made more accessible to this poor man by the commonwealth of society. A man has need of beauty.
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