This past Sunday was the city of Chicago's Bike the Drive. Lakeshore Drive is shut down to vehicle traffic for 6 hours and open to bicycles. You start at Grant Park and head either north or south. Steve and i entered LSD and headed south for approximately 7.5 miles to the Museum of Science and Industry to the turn around point and headed back to Grant park. The whole south route was just over 15 miles. Since I haven't been on my new bike much we stopped after 15 miles. we could have continued north to Berwyn and back for an additional 15 miles but decided to not push it. It was a perfect day to be out for a bike ride. Nice, bright, and for the trip down it wasn't very windy. We both had long sleeves on and almost didn't need them. It was quite the experience to be riding on LSD on a bike with not a car in sight. It was also an experience to be on the Red line train with 15 other bikes and riders coming into the city. i wish i had taken a picture of that. After the ride we wandered around to the various bike-related vendors to see what they were peddling. Since we started the ride at 5:45 in the morning, we were ready for breakfast. We stopped by a place on Michigan Ave and then headed home. We're already planning on doing the entire 30 miles next year.
Here we are standing in front of the museum taking a mid-ride break. enjoying a banana, mini-granola bars, and a blue energy drink.
A view looking back at the field museum. See how blue the sky was?
We stopped by McCormick Place to blow my nose and take a picture of the city. It was a good thing we stopped, when we went to take off Steve's chain fell off.
