- Arts and Entertainment
- Non-Store Errand
- Personal Care
- Personal Business
- Social Call (includes restaurants, coffee, and other social activities)
- Store (includes bike shop, running store, grocery store, etc. You know, a store.)
- You carried WHAT on your bike?!
- Work or Volunteering, School (includes dropping off kids)
- Wild Card
DATE: April 12, 2019
CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment
OBSERVATION: Our typical Friday night entertainment of going to Silk City Coffee to enjoy games and live music with family and friends, and off course enjoy some coffee too. Always fun to ride down Main St. in Manchester to let the drivers know there are bikes on the road.
DATE: April 12, 2019
CATEGORY: You carried WHAT on your bike?!
OBSERVATION: Another Friday night tradition, pizza from Filomena's. OK, maybe not such a big deal to carry pizza, but an extra large pizza takes up quite a bit of real estate on the tandem, and effectively puts the stoker out of commission.
DATE: April 13, 2019
CATEGORY: Store
OBSERVATION: New CVS just opened down the street for our house. Decided to check it out and pick-up some vitamins during their Grand Opening. Turns out we got a little Arts & Entertainment while there listening to a local band, and some Social Call talking to the owners of our favorite coffeeshop while they gave out free samples.
DATE: April 13, 2019
CATEGORY: Store
OBSERVATION: Run to Brown's Flowers to pick up flowers for the wedding. It catches the attention of people when you bike around with a bouquet of flowers in hand.
DATE: April 13, 2019
CATEGORY: Non-store Errand
OBSERVATION: We have had over 30 empty soda bottles hanging around the house for a couple of years now. The soda was enjoyed long ago when we still had our sailboat and would sail to various locations around the Connecticut and Rhode Island coast. It is time to return them to their rightful owners at Hosmer Mountain Soda Shack. Turns out we had enough bottles for an $8.00 refund.
DATE: April 13, 2019
CATEGORY: You carried WHAT on your bike?!
OBSERVATION: It is amazing the amount of electronics one can accumulate over the years, and it is important to properly dispose of those unwanted or broken electronic gadgets once their lives are over. With the help of our trailer we were able to proprly dispose of a microwave oven, stereo, CD player and printer at the Manchester Landfill and Recycling Center. Disposal made easy.
DATE: April 14, 2019
CATEGORY: Social Call
OBSERVATION: Getting married! Got a lot of attention and well wishes going down the street in our wedding attire and flowers all around. I know what you are thinking, where are our helmets? We wore them on the way home just as it was starting to sprinkle.
DATE: April 15, 2019
CATEGORY: Personnel Business
OBSERVATION: Heading off to Seattle, WA (not by bike, but plane) and in need of cash. Fortunately we had some time and pleasant weather the pedal down the street to our bank and it's ATM to withdrawl some money.
DATE: April 22, 2019
CATEGORY: Social Call
OBSERVATION: One can certainly make the argument that a social call involves face-to-face conversation and interaction, or at minimum the ability to talk over the phone so you can get immediate responses. We might be stretching this category a bit by including the mailing of thank you cards as a social call But, while not immediate interaction, we like to think we impart feelings of joy and appreciate in the minds of those receiving our cards. We think that is quite social.
DATE: April 22, 2019
CATEGORY: Volunteering
OBSERVATION: We might be stretching this one a bit, as we did not actually volunteer, but we did deliver much needed non-parishable food to the MACC Food Pantry. Unfortunately we did lose a small bag of goods along the way, and when we went back to look, it was gone. We are hopeful someone found said lost items and could make good use of them.
DATE: April 22, 2019
CATEGORY: Personnel Business
OBSERVATION: Getting married requires some paperwork. While we already had the marriage license signed and delivered, we did need to visit the Town Hall again to pick up a birth certificate for transferring of a dependent to medical benefits. The joys of bureaucracy, but riding the bike there makes up for the minor inconvenience.
DATE: April 22, 2019
CATEGORY: Volunteering
OBSERVATION: Another slight stretch of a category, but we did deliver some gently used clothing and home goods to our local Goodwill in hopes that they will find good homes and carry on their usefulness.
DATE: April 22, 2019
CATEGORY: Store (Bonus)
OBSERVATION: We added this as a bonus run, just because. The grocery store we typically ride to was on strike, with its employees looking for better pay and benefit among other important issues for corporation. In support of their strike, we biked slightly further to another grocery store. Fortunately we live in a town with several stores, but while shopping we were shocked at the price difference between stores. Luckily the strike is now over, the employees received a better contract, and we can return to our usual place of shopping.
