Red, White and Blue

One more reason to ride your bike

The 4th of July celebration began early this morning around 6:30. That's when the many vendors began setting up their booths. There were the obligatory booths that housed those giant wooden dolphin statues, booths with leather belts, booths with woodburned plaques, booths with snow cones and delicious funnel cakes, but most importantly sausage dogs with onions and peppers and a fat line of brown mustard. Although I was too hungry after I purchasing my sausage dog to take a photo of my dog, I assure you it was wonderful and had that nice "snap" to it.

Downtown St. Mary's is a small city that consists of one main street. This means that parking is a bit of an issue when it comes to fiding a parking place for the fireworks display. There isn't really an ideal parking situation. There are simply too many cars on the same road, but there is a solution. Ride your bike.

My solution to most things is the same: Ride your bike.

You are able to get home very quickly, but if you live for than 5 miles or so, you may want to park somewhere on Osborne and ride downtown. However, for those of us that live ~3.5 miles away, riding a bike means that we can be downtown in nearly 20 minutes (less than 15 if you are on a road bike) and your friends that drove cars will only make it a few minutes sooner. After the fireworks, your friends will spend an hour or more and a few gallons of gas waiting and inching forward.

Bike at 4th of July