Rainy Rides

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

– John Updike

You can have a good ride in the rain.

You can have a good ride when you have a hangover.

Rarely can you have a good ride in the rain with a hangover.

Alarm set for 6.45 am. At 5.30 am, Shell is asking me if I am awake.

We load the bikes and some breakfast.

On the road at 7.40 am.

We take a shortcut onto the Han River bike path and put 15 km down in an hour. Shell passes a speed camera at 38 km/h.

The hangover has retreated deep into the hippocampus, and I feel good.

We are home and showered by 11.30 am.

There are no pictures; we didn’t stop.

I will read a book and have an early night.

For the first time in a while, it is nice to be home.

“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!”

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky