Memorial Day Ride

I used the Memorial Day holiday to take a second relatively short bike ride on the long weekend. I started a little before Noon and rode west along the shortest route out of Philadelphia, Baltimore/Whitby Streets, into Delaware County. Once across Cobbs Creek, I started to take random turns but kept to a generally westward track and found myself in Lansdowne, a small suburban community with a nice downtown. Outside of Lansdowne, I did something radical, I turned my GPS map off and started navigating solely by interest and a rudimentary knowledge of the neighborhoods, which resulted in a some backtracking and a few loops.

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After riding serendipitously for an hour and half and thirteen miles, I had nearly reached Springfield Mall, one of the properties in my assigned portfolio. In 2006 when I was just getting back in to biking, I rode to this mall in October. I fondly remember the return ride from this mall to Philadelphia. It was almost 2:00 PM and the temperature was around ninety degrees. I decided I'd gone far enough and started started to ride back toward my apartment. I took a much more direct route back and managed to complete the ride just before 3:00 PM.