We had a higher turn-out than expected. It was going to only be Dan and myself. But F came along, too, which was awesome. We had our normal lights on, and Dan had a lit-up pumpkin on his rack, sporting an orange glow of holiday flavor. Of course, we all drank coffee before we met at the Water Tower. I brought candy which, if you said the magic words, I would give to people on bikes. Both of them. I sported a cool shirt that said, “Quoth the Raven, Baltimore!” and “Forever More!” on the back. It was a gift from the Baltimore Book Festival in 1997.
We met at the Water Tower (where we always meet) and took a zippy ride down Spring Lake, dinging our bells at the kiddies out Trick-or-Treating. These days, there are disappointingly few kids out doing that, but there were tons around Homeland. Maybe the folks in the big houses of Homeland give out the best candy. They sure gave us a lot of smiles and waves.
We elicited a lot of comments like, “Cool, a Halloween bike ride!” and “Cool bikes!” I’m surprised that it was so surprising to see people on bikes in Baltimore, since it is really becoming a more commonplace thing to see nowadays, especially in North Baltimore. But it was nice that people noticed.
We rode through some alleys, dodged some traffic and scored iced-coffee and iced-tea, which we enjoyed in the quad at Hopkins. Added boost. We rode through Hampden and back up to the Water Tower. It was damned gleeful!
Maybe we can do one for Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. New Years would be fun, but there are, frankly, too many drunken idiots out that night.
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