I started out not sure where I wanted to ride today, but decided it wouldn't be too far. I decided to ride past my niece's house and see if she was there. She wasn't. I saw their tandem, two singles, and child trailer sitting out in the carport. The car there had the windows rolled down halfway. I thought, "This certainly is not Tucson!"
Since I was so close to my old neighborhood - where we lived when I was attending BYU - I decided to ride past the two apartments we lived in. I wasn't sure where they were, it being 27 years later. My memory didn't work very well and I wondered around the few blocks until my memory was jogged. I found the one house on 850W and then I found the road for the other house on 300 North. I had a real trouble finding the house on 300 N. I wasn't sure between two different duplexes, as I remembered some of the features from one and the neighbors from the other. I think I figured it out. I took pictures.
I then decided to ride down and see my brother, Ed's old basement apartment a little south of there. I am not sure I figured that one out.
I then rode south remembering a little bit, but seeing new development. The road, 500 W had a beautify bike lane. I had to follow it. I went under the freeway and then ran into a road I didn't know existed. I think it is a fairly new road, but I may have just never gone down that way before. In any case, it has been newly paved within the past 5 years or so, I would guess. Lakeview Parkway. I figured I could follow it and it would lead me, eventually, back around toward Utah lake and the Provo River Trail where I would again have solid knowledge of where I was. I always had my bearings, but just wasn't familiar with this road. I figured it would eventually take me past the Provo Airport.
This road had a very nice multi-use path which I followed all the way to the airport. It then ran out and I had to cross the road to ride in the street for the next 1/4 mile or less. I t hen hooked up to Lakeshore Drive which I was on last Wednesday - just a b it south. I was surprised when that "bit south" turned out to be only about 200 feet or so.
I was able to ride back to home base with very little traffic. In fact, my whole ride was very little traffic. I had about 1/4 mile of the entire drive where I had to worry about any traffic other than very slow neighborhood roads whose speed limit was 25.
This was a very enjoyable ride that was mostly just meandering. However, I was starting to feel my knees near the end. I haven't done any exercise or rides for a week.