I'm pretty tired this evening. This morning I rode over to an eighteen basket disc golf course and played a casual round with someone that arrived at the course at the same time. We had played before one time so we kind of knew each other.
He ended up winning by about five throws or so. The score was pretty close for most of the round until I had a really tough time on one of the baskets.
It was a lot of fun to play with someone else and keep score. I usually don't track my score when I play a tough course like the one we were playing.
I found a disc on the course and rode my e-bike a bit out of the way on the way back to drop it off for them. It wasn't that far but the miles do add up when you are on a bike.
As I was getting into town I was pretty tired out and not paying that much attention. Someone passed me in the middle of a round about. It was really dangerous and they came very close to hitting me. I had the feeling they were mad at me because I was not riding over far enough or something.
There is really no place to go the way these intersections are designed. It should be against the law to pass someone in an intersection like this. (You are supposed to give at least two feet when you pass a bicycle plus the car forces the bicycle to go straight if it passes that way and it is not yielding the right of way to traffic already in the circle.)
In the cars defense perhaps they were not paying much attention either. The bicycle lane goes away just before the intersection and then reappears after it. I'm not sure what the city expects the bicycle to do. They should at least continue to paint the bicycle lane lines in dashed lines and put up a sign, "DO NOT PASS BICYCLES!!!" (Maybe with a little scull and crossbones for emphasis, lol.) ☠
Anyhow, enough ranting for now I guess. I expect nothing will get done about it until a few people kick the bucket, "NOT IT!" LOL.
Here's some nice pictures that I took yesterday of the river. Things were looking a bit flooded and muddy:
Some dew drops on the pine needles:
I like the fall colors and the red berries on the bush in the background:
Thanks for reading! I always value your support and comments. The pictures were taken by me with my Galaxy S9+. Text and graphics copyright lightsplasher & litesplasher.
