I have been waiting for this moment all winter. Spring has finally come! With the end of spring comes the melting of snow. That is why I would like to announce the opening of the Mohawk Hudson Bike Trail for bikes. I rode it yesterday and besides for a few patches of snow it was clear. Where did I go you ask? I went to the Troy Farmer’s Market. While there I learned two interesting things. The first is that they are expanding their market to Wednesdays. Now you can enjoy the farm freshness two days a week. The second is that starting May 7th they will be moving back outside. I can’t wait until I can walk through the rows of fresh food with the sun shining on my face.
I would like to end this one with an amusing little anecdote of something that happened to me on Friday. I was riding down Western like I always do after work and what do I see descending from the heavens but a plastic bag. It was as if mother nature was saying, “Hey Chris, could you get this one.” What did I do? Did I ride on by and let that bag become just another piece of trash on the street? No, without stopping I reached up and plucked that bag from the sky like it was my destiny and brought it home to dispose of it properly.
Albany Bicycle Coalition 
Nice catch! Great story.
On Sunday I was pedaling around and I stopped at an intersection and picked up a plastic soda bottle someone had left standing in the street. The light turned green and I pedaled on, and tossed the bottle into a trash can. (It occurs to me now I could’ve recycled it.)
As cyclists I think it’s a little harder to ignore the trash everywhere. I ride the path on Hackett almost every day, and it’s littered with debris. A broom and a little love would make that a much nicer place for everyone. (Some friends armed with plastic bags, and a Sunday morning, and we could really do a number.) But I am perhaps too idealistic.