24th ride - 5/30/15

Today's 'adventure quotient,' while not nonexistent, was at least fairly low. I went to Gallup Park early this morning to ride its trails—portions of Washtenaw County's B2B (Border-to-Border) Trail. It was good that I went early (getting to the park at 7:00), because it is quite popular and its paths would soon begin to clog with runners, walkers, and cyclists. And unlike when I went there on May 9, I was able to get it disassembled and loaded into our car fairly expeditiously (15 minutes today vs. an hour then), and at the park I was able to reassemble with no trouble.

I rode the Gallup Park Pathway first northwest, up to Mitchell Field and Fuller Rd. as far as E. Medical Center Dr., and then reversed course and returned to the park, continuing on past the car in the other direction as far as Parker Mill and then riding on the path that follows Geddes as far as Dixboro Rd., and turned around at Concordia University to return to the park. All this went fine; I had been concerned about a mechanical issue when I was miles from the car, and Michelle home asleep (there would have been nothing she could have done anyway). But I committed it all to God in prayer, listening for any word that perhaps I should not do this route, and all went fine, for which I give thanks and praise to our God. It gave me a ride of 10.2 miles (1 hour and 15 minutes).

However, when I finished, and went to disassemble the trike to load it back in the car, I evidently loosened one of the bolts of the seat clamp too much, because when I got home, and went to reassemble it, the bolt was nowhere to be found. I checked the car carefully, in case it could have fallen out in there, and even drove back to the park and diligently searched the area where I had been parked—but all this was fruitless. Since I could not use it without this bolt to hold the seat in place, I asked Michelle's permission to drive to Dearborn, wrote a note of explanation on my laptop, and set off. At Jack's Bicycle, they gave me the needed bolt from a demonstration model, saying they'd procure a replacement from the company. So I drove back home and got everything reassembled (before the rain which is now pelting us began to fall), no worse for wear, except for a little time spent on the issue.