We had too much to eat last night, New Year’s Eve, so we decided to go take a spin around Taipei to shake it all down. Also Thor ignored the Central Weather Bureau, left Sleipner in the stable and refused to lift Mjolner, so there was no rain and thunder and lightning despite the CWB’s promise of 7 days of rain and crappy weather, another reason to take a bicycle ride. The river park ride from Minsheng and along the Keelung and Tamsui rivers down to Gongguan is always a nice ride, and, at 45km, just enough for New Years Day.
When we got to the new Shezi Bridge (社子橋) we realized that they’re finally done, although it hasn’t been opened for traffic yet. For us cyclists, it means that you just follow the road to get up on the road on the levee that takes you around the Shezi peninsula instead of having to walk the bike up two sets of stairs as you had to before.
When we came home, the friend who was going to take care of the dogs during our planned 3-day ride with friends in the east rift valley Thu-Sat called and said that she probably would not be able to help after all. Mom’s sick. A good reason, of course, but it means that we will probably have to cancel 🙁 Or at least me, so D can go, since we’ve already paid our friend who did the arrangements.
You look so determined. 🙂