| Re: Remembering the poetry of erstwhile poster Van Bagnol
In article <ohEoh.582877$1T2.289947@pd7urf2no>,
"nash" <zwepytzkehillc9@jetable.net> writes:
>> 1.) Because the bottom is rooted to the ground.
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> I guess you have not seen Stanley Park lately.
> You must be an owl.
I got used to working graveyard shift
(currently temporarily laid-off due to
seasonal slowdown.)
When the park isn't devastated by Mother Nature,
there can be some fairly pleasant riding in there.
Except for being stuck behind tour buses on the
Drive, in their diesel exhaust.
I sometimes enjoy climbing under the Lions Gate bridge
from the seawall up to the Prospect Point restaurant.
The last stretch at the top is strewn with babyhead rocks,
so I've gotta dismount and walk it. Then re-mount and
emerge into the restaurant parking lot as if I rode it
the whole way, to the amazement of onlookers ;-)
Then the Drive goes downhill toward Beach Ave, and
maintaining the 40 KmH speed limit is easy. Signage
admonishes drivers to not hassle cyclists.
On a stormy day with the tide coming in, the spray
shooting up at Siwash Rock is quite dramatic.
I am quite disgusted with how the Pauline Johnson
memorial above Third Beach has been treated. It's
now pretty much a traffic island.
cheers,
Tom
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