First Trip

So, Ica and I took the extracycle on our first foray. We went to Kroger. Let me just say that Ica is small, but riding the bike with her on the deck was tough. She pedaled the last half. That's how we split it up, half and half, and that's about all you can get out of us for a few days.

But it was awesome to go to the grocery store and realize you can get all your stuff on there. I'd say just the bags could hold 8 full sacks. It doesn't take all that much longer and it is a work out. Next time, two bikes.

I guess an extracycle is a strange thing; we're used to bikes as toys or as racing machines, not so much practical tools for getting around. This is an interesting step for us, getting some equipment that will let us ride bikes to do almost everything we have done with a car.

And, too, it's nice to have Ica; she's weird enough to get an extracycle and ride on the back, and tough enough to ride me on the back. As Martina said when she saw the bike and our excitement, "You two are lucky you found each other..."