This morning we headed toward the 49 Tollway under construction just west of the campground. The road is, of course, closed, but no one bothered us as we biked along. The only other vehicles on the roadway were trucks carrying road construction materials, which barreled past in both directions.
We were puzzled by what we saw along the roadway. It is clearly not wide enough for a divided highway with two lanes in each direction, but we couldn't see any parallel roadway being constructed. Finally we came up with an idea: maybe there wasn't enough money to build the whole thing at once, so the one roadway would temporarily be used for single lanes in both directions. When we got home, Ken checked online and bingo! we were right.
We rode eight miles altogether. Most of the route was either level or only gently rising and falling, but there was enough challenge to let my leg muscles know they needed to get to work. We made our round trip journey along the tollway for free, but drivers will have to have toll tags--or pay extra if they have to be billed by mail.
We went to Super 1 Foods today, hoping to find organic apples. Carol had mentioned that they carried them in her local Super One (on Troop Highway). Guess we'll have to get some Saturday when we're in the neighborhood.
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