More Biking

I went for a ride the other morning as the sun was coming up. The weather was perfect for a hard ride. Unfortunately, I was too tired to really push it. Instead, I just played a couple of games. One is called, "Try To Find Your Way Home," and the other is called, "Don't Get Hit By the Huge Trucks." They're both pretty exhilarating. This was the first time I had taken a route home from a reasonable distance that I had never taken before. The more I get to know the city, the easier this kind of thing gets, but it still would be really easy to get lost. Especially since it was a cloudy and foggy morning and I couldn't necessarily use the sun for direction.

That game wasn't that hard. The other game was a little harder. Those trucks were trying to beat me at it. I'm only considering it a competitive game rather than a cooperative one because of the few trucks who don't seem to agree. One truck left me just enough room to pass by a parked car so that I would try to pass between the car and the truck rather than wait for the truck to pass by first. In the end, I won. I made it home in one piece.

I took another picture of the palace garden right next to our apartment before going home.

I also took a picture of ,what seems to be, another one of Tokyo's personal challenges to bikers.

That small gap is to prevent motor vehicles from driving on the path along the river, and simultaneously challenge bikers to ride through the smallest spaces they can without getting off of their bike. This one is actually not bad at all. I thought it was the first time I went through, but then saw the other ones along the path. The gaps on those are much smaller and have more little bars sticking out, trying to catch your feet or pedals as you pass through.