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Ride 48 - Final Ride!!

Ride 48 - 15 Dec 2019
Distance 25.1 km (Distance to date 1532.7 km)
Time 2hrs 11mins (Time to date 108hrs 12mins)

Put a fork in me........I'm DONE!!!


Since February 2019, I have dreamed of this ride.  I'd had all sorts of thoughts about how to end and how I'd mark the occasion.  In the end, I planned nothing.  With my wife heavily pregnant, the rides were becoming a burden and adding a celebration just didn't seem fair.

 In the end, fate gave me an ending; albeit a simple one.  The final metre of my final street was this...................
The cycling gods delivered
The last ride was a cold one, with the night's frost melting away as the sun hit.


On the way there I also achieved a bucket list level accomplishment!!!



 Being early meant that downtown wasn't busy, great for a cyclist wanting to meander about looking for his last few random finds of this adventure.
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church

Just a blue cow.  I'm easily amused.

Would you take legal advice from a shed?


#nofilter


 Points of Interest.....


Everyone Belongs in Nature (48.42646, -123.35769)

A kick ass mural in the downtown core, hidden away in a car park.  Annoyingly I didn't get a picture of the whole wall!
Questionable perspective or killer seals??


Vancouver Island Map (48.424219, -123.368178)

The most useful street art I have ever encountered.  You could pretty much navigate the island from this!

Pretty and Useful....whole new meaning to the phrase 'Pretty Useful'
Finishing Bike (48.42646, -123.35769)

My personal gift from the cycling gods!  (although it remains the property of Bastion Books)
The End!

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