Day 5 - Travel Solo
The Quest: Go on a short trip by yourself that involves some physical and mental challenges.
I traveled on my own in the past but in the past fifteen years I’ve always been traveling either with my wife or with other people. Basically, any complicated decisions or planning have always been handled by someone else and the limits of the challenges have always been defined by what other people could handle. So I took a trip to Victoria on my bicycle. Sounds simple, but there’s actually more planning and timing required than I’m used to.
Things I observed:
- Having to worry about directions definitely makes it more stressful to ride.
- The Skytrain bridge between South Vancouver and Richmond is really cool.
- It’s always amazing how fast bicycles actually go. I wasn’t riding all that fast but I was still going about 1/2 speed of most cars.
- Having the enforced break of the ferry trip kind of makes things harder.
- The George Massey Tunnel shuttle is nuts. Just make a pedestrian bridge over it for goodness’ sake.
