![]() There’s a saying that money can’t buy happiness, but money bought me that bike. ![]() This was my bike.Īn hour or so later (my husband had to find one and test ride his too) it was. As I zoomed past the dumpsters and the overgrown vines behind the pizza joint - past an evangelical church renting space in the strip mall - that exhilarating sense of freedom was back. I picked out one of REI’s private label bikes and took it for a test spin around the parking lot. I went on a trip to Israel in college, and biked along the Egyptian border at night through the desert and felt so ecstatic about the sand and wind and moon - the starkness only heightened by the electric fence - that I honestly wondered how life could ever deliver a bigger high. We’ve rented bikes and a Burley (2-kid buggy) numerous times near the Lehigh Gorge State Park and at the Valley Forge National Park a few miles from our house. We’d been thinking about buying bikes for a while. The biggest expenditure was a Friday night trip to REI. But all in all, I think it was money well spent. This was an expensive Memorial Day weekend, given that we stayed in town. ![]()
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