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I work in an office. I also work just over 50 km from home, which is a bit too long to commute. I spend altogether too much time driving a car for someone who is anti-car. I try to supplement it by listening to bikepacking podcasts, anti-car urbanism podcasts and, well heavy music, but I’m still missing my bike time.
Had a window of sunshine and relatively warm weather, so I took advantage.
It was the end of summer, right when things were getting nice and golden outside. The smoke was finally clearing a bit, and the heat dome had lifted. Leaves had a tiniest hint of gold. You know.
So a homeschool group in Royston, B.C. decided to do a cool project over COVID-19. They built a scale model of the solar system with the Earth being roughly the size of a golf ball. They made plywood signs with paintings of each of the planets and screwed them into power poles at their approximate distances from the “Sun.”
Back in November, before the world changed multiple times, I got an Instagram message saying that a few of the guys would be coming up to ride on Salt Spring for the day and were wondering if I could show them around a bit.
I grew up in a mountain town, and didn’t really realize how much of an effect they had on my life. I had to leave the Rockies in my late teens, but have been trying to get back into this kind of environment ever since.
In the spring of 2020 the world kind of shut down a bit.
Exploring the new home.
