Wednesday, November 08, 2006

not a bad commute....

Every so often I remember to check the tide book, every so often a negative tide lines up with my commute to or from work... Monday night was such a time... I left the shop a little early before the night began. I pedalled out the door and downstream on the Pajaro river levee, a fairly straight gravel path with strawberry fields and rows of lettuce off to the side... Normally I get off the levee at a certain point and start battling the cars and tractors on Beach street and San Andreas road, but I rode further towards the beach taking a right onto a dirt farm road... A few hundred yards of pavement and I hit the sand... Nothing but gulls and glassy wet sand, a flat race track of sorts, the sun is setting and the waves are breaking, I look northwest towards Santa Cruz proper, 10 or more miles of beach in the way, somewhere in the east the moon is coming up...
I took the videos and snapped a few shots, Mary-Anne did all the edits and rad soundtrack....
Life is pretty good when during your 20 mile commute home you can splash your wheels next to the mighty Pacific O, close your eyes and pedal no hands, hear the crash and cries of water and birds, and never be near a car.....
Rick



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1 comment:

Glasgow said...

Oh, shit does that look nice. Nice edits and soundtrack, too, MA! I miss you guys.