Sunday, November 10, 2013

A not-so-leisurely ride

In keeping with our goal to ride all the trails in metro-Atlanta, Joan and I struck out for the Arabia Mountain Trail (or something like that). It’s near Panola Road, Panola Mountain, and Arabia Mountain. Here’s a map and our path (in red).

South River Trail Nov 10 2013

It was to be a 10-mile out-and-back ride (five miles each way), but a wrong turn changed the ride into 12.52 miles. The green and red dots show our beginning and end points—an elementary school at one of the trail heads.

Defying gravity
It was a course full of steep hills, hairpin turns, and leaf-covered trails. Here’s Joan cresting a steep hill and proving that she can maintain her balance at under one mile-per-hour.

Joan bicycle South River Trail

 

Please don’t  bother our facility
On the way back, I saw several of these signs along a barbed-wire fence. What is this all about? A secret government project? A private club for the very, very wealthy? An experimental farm producing experimental food?

sign Tampering Fed Offense

 

The answer!
I think this next sign, all by itself, would be enough to keep people out.

sign Caution Sludge

But I keep wondering how someone could tamper with sludge.

 


Another sign, not on the bicycle ride
I can think of two possible misspelled words. Can you?

sign Cameras and FLIM

If you try this Website and click on the blue arrows, you can hear several ways to pronounce phlegm (or maybe flim).

http://www.forvo.com/word/phlegm/

On that raspy note, I’ll quit.


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