Day #37: Racine to Milwaukee (34 miles)

In paragraph 18 of The Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein says:

"Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a  maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses."

He's using the street plan as a metaphor for human language, but each day I find I ride through the physical version of his metaphor: from farms and fields to suburban subdivisions to the big box stores, gleaming hi-tech office parks and strip malls that ring US cities, and then through the winding streets of old urban centers.

When I dropped out of college, and before I went back to study education, I spent a fair amount of time exploring industrial sites around Boston on my bike. I feel like this trip has connected me with those days of discovering out-of-the-way spots...

I went a little crazy taking movies today, so lots of action shots...

Snapshot: 34 miles, starting at 8:30am and ending at 1pm, with 3 hours of actual riding: