"I WANT MY BIKE!"

First of all look at this! This is what my life feels like sometimes at school! Like a room full of torn apart engines.




Second of all I want to announce that I officially have landed a job! Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support, all the credit goes to my Lord who has always provided for me but you guys get some points in there too. I now work at a Valvoline Instant Oil Change. After a seven hour orientation I think it is safe to say that I will be working there. I really don't think it's as magical as my mother's job but, it's oil, what are you going to do to dress that one up?

Speaking of God providing I want you all to know that I recklessly spent all my money before I started work and bought a road bike. I know what you're thinking "Jessie just bought a road bike and Tyler is such a copy cat" or "How cutie, they miss each other so much that they ride bikes and have become soul mates though the asphalt they ride on." or "How can he afford to buy really expensive things when he's broke and starving and now has no time for biking anyway?" Well all of that is true so just keep thinking it.

Really though I didn't technically copy Jess (I love her) because I bought mine Friday night, where she bought hers Saturday afternoon. So there.

I have really liked the idea of going long distances so I rode (on my old bike) about 16 mi. on Monday, 20 mi. on Tuesday, and 25 on Thursday. So when I found my new bike on craigslist I was able to talk the guy down, into, about a little above, what I wanted to spend and just had to buy it. I knew my money was going to "go far".So that made it better.

I spent the rest of the day on Friday taking my new prize to my collage-budget-friendly-bike shop and fixing it up. I was really happy when I told them how much I paid for it and the guy just kind of blinked at me. "Is that a good deal?" I asked. "Yeah... you got your money's worth." He said sarcastically. I was also thankful that he looked it over he said everything was working perfectly. So all I did was get the handle bars re-taped and ready to go. A few rides around the block at my house was all I got in before it was dark that night. Then came Saturday.

I wanted to make a day of it because I didn't have anything else to do and I knew with my job starting I wouldn't have Saturdays like this anymore. So I started out with a good breakfast of PP&J and Chicken Noodle soup and was out the door by 9:50ish. It was an awesome 67 degrees out with a lite breeze. I headed down the Greenway trail by my house which I later found connects to other paved trails around Nashville. As I went there was plenty to see and lots of people to almost kill, as I quickly found that my new bike was faster then my old one. Much faster. I went so many places.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that I was going so fast, I didn't get to take pictures of all of them.
I went by parks and ball parks with kids playing baseball (Who knew?) and rivers and bridges and guys fishing and other bicyclist who would actually wave back now and everything!

I went by pastures out in the country too. It was a great day!

(Yes those are cows)

As I kept on peddling I started to notice a familiar sky line and before I knew it I was standing in front of the LP field!





I had made it all the way downtown! I didn't want to stop then so I went over an awesome people bridge over the river!




The people bridge had a great view.




I then went down Broadway and took a left towards a great park that is very historical.
It has a wonderful monument to WWII and I really enjoyed looking at everything and taking a break.


Next door to the park was a huge farmers market that everyone I know would have loved but not me, and they weren't there so I didn't go. :) I got to see lots of sites and found it much faster to get around on my bike downtown then in a car. I can see why people do it so much.





I was pretty worn out by the time I got back but I really had a blast me and my new bike.


My total trip according to google maps, and the fancy computer on my bike, I went a little over 40 mi. that day. Needless to say I only went about 20 on Sunday.