I got home from work around 7am, this morning. It's a beautiful day out there; sunny, with temps in the low 80's F, and a few puddles from last night's thunder boomer. Everything is bright, lush, and green.
The grocery store is less than ten minutes by bike. I needed some small groceries for lunch; Greek yogurt, muenster slices, hard salami slices, bananas, OJ. I have this cool backpack that I got at the 2011 Chicago Green Festival. It's made out of black recycled "plastic cloth," and nylon drawstrings about twice as thick as shoe laces. When you put it on, the strings close the top.
I got to the store about half an hour before they opened, so I spent the time "bike strolling" around the neighborhood and circling the parking lot.
Once the store opened, I got four ten-slice packs of Muenster cheese, four packages of sliced hard salami, six containers of yogurt, a quart of orange juice, and a bunch of bananas. Everything but the bananas fit in the backpack. This thing folds down as small as my wallet, and goes in my old tan leather fanny pack with my spare inner tube and spoke wrench.
I had to hand-carry the bananas home, and the straps dug into my shoulders a bit because they're strings instead of straps, but that's a pretty good haul for something that folds so small.
Life is good.
Ride on,
Dan
1975 Schwinn Continental
This is the bike before most of the restoration work - click to view full-size
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