{"id":6831,"date":"2018-06-17T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T00:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2018-06-17T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T00:45:25","slug":"i-want-to-ride-it-where-i-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6831","title":{"rendered":"I want to ride it where I like"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI want to ride my bicycle
\nI want to ride my bike
\nI want to ride my bicycle
\nI want to ride it where I like<\/p>\n

– Freddie Mercury<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Went for a bike ride today.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Where I Like<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went past Goose Lake and Old Lake, skirted Etna [1]<\/a> wandered north until I hit Merry Lea and realized where I was. Turned south, avoided Ormas [2]<\/a>, crossed along the south edge of Merry Lea, then around Bender’s Orchard [4]<\/a>. I stayed straight south until I hit Crane Lake then turned for home. Went past Dulcuis Vineyards [5]<\/a> and then turned down old 102 towards Tri-Lakes. <\/p>\n

That took me past the farm my great-great-great grandfather [6]<\/a> lived on back in the 1850’s. I went around Shriner Lake, where my brother and I bought a cottage in the late 1970’s and where my great good friend Deb Imbody has a cottage now.<\/p>\n

Almost home, I churned down Burd Road past where my grandparents lived when I was growing up, and where nephew Tom has some nice looking beans on the farm we still call “Grandma’s.”<\/p>\n

And then the final slog down the gravel road I live on.<\/p>\n

I was just out riding. Not pushing it, no goals, just enjoying a summer morning before it got too hot, reconnecting with my world. I don’t want to ride in a group, or in organized events. I just want to ride my bicycle where I like.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

1. <\/a>Wanting to avoid as they say on 91.5 FM, The Eagle, “The busy streets of Etna.”<\/p>\n

2. <\/a>There’s a Baptist [3]<\/a> church there.<\/p>\n

3. <\/a>I misspelled “Baptist” and my spellchecker offered the choices of “Baptist, Rapist, and Papist.” <\/p>\n

4. <\/a>Bender’s was looking good, but my apple trees are too. Don’t know that I’ll need to buy apples this fall.<\/p>\n

5. <\/a>Dulcius Vineyards is about the coolest thing ever. Someone with a lot of money and skill plopped a vineyard right here in my neck of the woods. It’s a beautiful thing. So much of the ground around here should not be used to grow corn and soybeans. It makes me so happy to see people trying other things.<\/p>\n

6. <\/a>Henry Sylvester Zumbrun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}