the GOT bike

...with 3 speeds! I usually eat breakfast, and riding a bike is nothing out of the ordinary, but May is bike month, so that meant opportunities to combine the two, two days in a row, at the Greenfield and Northampton bicycle breakfasts. I don't live in either town, but have connections, beyond just riding bikes and eating, with both. I completed my student teacher internship for a teaching certificate at the Greenfield High School, and while I started shopping for my first house there, I wound up buying in Northampton. Truly though, people on bikes, or food alone, would be sufficient nudge for me to pedal to either of the two towns I enjoy. Well, pedal most-of-the-way is more accurate for Greenfield. The breakfast started at 8am, and while I biked the full distance last year, catching a FRTA bus in South Deerfield meant I could leave my house in full light. I still wore my hi-viz jacket, and it came in handy when I had to flag down the passing FRTA shuttle and the apologetically mu...