the GOT bike

 I'm also cooling my heels, sitting in the departure terminal at Logan Airport while my not too untrustworthy bike sits, sheltered in the economy parking garage, at racks within sight of the lot attendant. Looks like we made it! Yesterday was an interesting trip. Today was an interesting trip. It seems a theme. Yesterday started pleasantly unexciting, riding back roads to Ware on a route I more or less used before. I made it that far without consulting a map, so I decided to make that the day's theme, or at least the day before 5pm. After all, I'd left early, so I might as well use the time. In Ware, I joined Route 9, which wasn't great, but also wasn't awful, and yet after an hour or two of that, it seemed I could made better use of my extra time by branching off the known path. In Spencer, I opted for the right fork heading, it turns out, into the residential bit of town. That could have been a short blip that rejoined the through route, but before that, I was eve...