My first Blog post ever

This is my first blog post ever! If you know me you know I've posted plenty to the mountain bike community forums all over but especially in New England. I really don't know what the difference is between posting to a forum or my own blog, except that more people that share my passion for all things bikeable are likely to see it in the forums. And I like to stay local, in touch with my physical community around me. Not to say that I can't relate with others in differing geographical situations, I just thrive on what's happening here, now, right outside my door. That's where I am most of the time. Of course I would appreciate the opportunity to explore new landscapes and make new friends and try new trails and sample other cuisines in their element but the reality is that I'm not going anywhere far from home anytime soon. Home in New England right now is all I can afford, timewise, and of course financially. Luckily I do love New England, or atleast, the parts of New England that arent as heavily populated as where I call home, and, if I had my druthers(is that really a word?) or if I could get motivated maybe I would move me and my family to a place that we could call home that was in one of those less-populated incorporations. If I had a job that would transport us to a more perfect place on the side of a hill up a dirt road next to a nicely babbling brook.....that's just one of the many excuses that anchors us here in Quincy. Actually that last visual isnt very different from where we live, except that our downtown is far from the quaint little valley town that is 'just down the road' from that more perfect place........There are thousands of cars streaming through our downtown which really is a small city but still a city nonetheless......These cars are mostly going anywhere but here, since the main road that bisects Quincy, Hancock Street, is also the main non-highway alternative to getting closer to Boston. Even with public transportation (the 'T') making it easy to get into Boston, it seems that more and more people would rather drive solo into Boston in their SUV's than rub shoulders with their fellow drones on the elecric train. I'll save that subject for later.