I had a great week on my bike. I rode to the Y and back, even when I could have used the car–a small thing, but a big shift, and it takes basically the same amount of time. I biked to Mount Vernon for a coffee date, to Hampden for a lunch date, and down to Harbor East for dinner with a friend I hadn’t seen in over 20 years. It helped that the weather was unseasonably warm, but really, it’s a mind shift: the bike is how I travel, so that’s how I traveled this week. It was glorious.

My ride to Hampden took me along Wyman Park Drive, which was a construction clusterfuck because Johns Hopkins is building their new AI center on that corner, and they are cutting down a bunch of trees to make room for it. People who care about those trees are not happy about it, not at all. Hopkins says they’ll plant an additional 300 trees, but people who care about these trees want these trees.