Wednesday Night Train to Social Ride

On Wednesday, my day was pretty long, but it was glorious. I biked to work but then took the train to downtown. I wanted to ride with the Queer Ride, which meets every Wednesday at 7:30pm at the capitol. Not sure if I am supposed to capitalize that, no pun intended. 

I wasn't sure where the capitol was, thought maybe it was on 11th street, so I just looked for the capitol poking out of the sky then biked towards it. It was uphill. VERY uphill, but it was a nice little ride from the train station. 

Pretty buildings were all around me, I was on Congress street. Congress goes downhill all the way and dead-ends at the capitol.

Here is my bike in some sweet lighting. I mean, that lighting is just so beautiful to me. I tried to take pictures of the capitol up close, but it reminds me of taking pictures of the moon. The moon is always big and beautiful and quite a site to see, but you take a picture of it and it looks like a little white circle. Lets just say I have lots of "outtakes" pics of the capitol that don't do it any justice.

All I want to say about Congress, is that someone had a drug overdose in the Subway bathroom and therefore, NOBODY on that street will let you use their bathroom. I went into 7-11, Quiznos, Chipolte was closed, Subway, nobody would let me in. I finally found this little place called Holy Cow, they serve grass fed beef burgers, and the first thing I did was beg him to let me pee, but he was like "dude, you need a key for the bathroom, just take this key and go, no big deal". There were more words, something like " hey I dont eat cow, but I will buy so many burgers from you when I get back from my bike ride I swear, you saved my life"....something like that was said.

I didn't ride that many miles today leading up to Queer Ride, but I sure did explore a lot. I had a homeless guy who was probably my age ask me why I put all my lights in my bag when I locked my bike. I wasn't answering him, because he was talking so fast and sounded way too excited and loud, so he answered the questions for me. I couldn't help but smile, he was not a mean person, just kinda creeped me out because he was so fixated on what I was doing and he was slurring a lot, maybe he was drunk. When I finally pedaled off, still not saying anything to the guy,  I gave him a peace sign and then he said "woooooo yeah"! It's the little things haha.

This is some statue thing by the capitol, I think I need to go back and read the info on it because it looks really important. There were lots of people taking pictures , families, Quincerra girls in big blue dresses, I felt kinda in the way. I heard "OK Kids, say toliet paper!!!" . I guess that replaced the "Say Cheese!" from when I was a kid taking pictures.


Ok, so by this time I was tired and ready to go home. It was like 7pm, I had been up about 12 hours riding to work, working, then riding to the capitol. I opened up a red bull, chugged it, then the people from the social ride walked up, we chilled for a bit then started riding our bikes for another 16 miles.