Biking the Hoosier Uplands, Summer 2008

Chicago Tandem Ride

July 5, 2007
Eileen and I rented a nice Trek recumbent at Millennial Park, and headed north past Oak St. Beach. It was amazing that we could get through the traffic and pedestrians with no real problem, it took just a few minutes to realize that I had to let her know when we had to coast, once this was working we did fine. Starting was difficult, it definately worked better over 5 mph.

We rode along the lake for a couple of quick miles, then cut under the highway to the north side of Lincoln Park Zoo. We took a bunch of pictures at the lagoon, and then wended our way through the zoo.

Here are pics of Millennial Park:

As we rode along the lake we could just see Chicago’s water intake plant. At the lagoon on the north side of the zoo, Eileen took the picture of the guitar player. The flamingos were amazing, how do they do it?

We had some extra time after coming back from the zoo, and so we decided to cross the river to the south, the lighthouse is quite scenic. We had to cross like all the other bikers and peds, along a narrow, overused “sidewalk” on the bridge, it was nuts.