July 4 was awesome, but I won’t recount it here. I just wanted to point out this very cool bike group out on the street. Disco ball bike crowd riding around at 2 am? Yes, that’s sweet.
Today I went riding out around Cambridge to improve my mental map of the place. My realization is that there are a few very old areas — Harvard, Kendal Square, Porter Square in Cambridge, Concord, Lexington, and of course Boston — with direct roads between them. The names of these roads are generally given by the larger place (at least locally), which explains the numerous Cambridge, Harvard, Concord, Lexington streets, although rarely in the place for which they’re named.
I also discovered the source of the Minuteman Bikeway. Although the maps show the starting point as Alewife Station, there is actually a pleasant extension from past Davis Square not marked there. (See also my previous post on my ride on the bikeway.)
