Riding Bikes

Finally bit the bullet and told them to take out my passenger seat. An e-bike is probably better than a motorcycle for my health and I can get plenty of places and turn off the assist if I really want to get extra exercise.

So much freaking room by the way.

 

I've learned a valuable lesson. Don't follow Google's bike directions. It wanted me to take a left through a vine covered chain link fence. When I decided to take a different route it saved me 2 miles.

Saved $5 over the base NY Thruway meal by riding to Kingston from the Ulster rest area.

 

You are wise to take advantage of those opportunities.
Many times I would park at a truck stop that was near a small town with a mom and pop family restaurant, or some specialty something like a BBQ joint. Ride the short distance, then spend another hour or so touring the town, back to the truck stop, fuel, take a shower.
I found the town I now live in that way. You see everything in a town when you are on a bicycle. Good, Bad and the Ugly.