My current cycling commute!

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I have to say that my current commute to work and back is one of the most picturesque I've every had the pleasure of riding. Because the city made a dedicated system of parks and recreational trails I can ride away from traffic for long portions of the trip. In the morning I pick up one of the trails that will head me toward the centre of town. There are several families of pheasants and mallards along the way. I go straight through downtown past the Bell Aliant tower which is visible in the picture I added to this discussion. I pick up the main recreational trail when I get to the river. The Petitcodiac is a cool kind of river because it features a daily tidal bore. Natives before we Europeans put barriers in it used to ride the tidal current sixty kilometers inland and back with little effort. That's cheap efficient transportation. I follow the river to the call centre I work at. Along the way home I take a slightly different route which is a little longer. Later in the day traffic can get quite heavy and I don't like to battle the downtown traffic. Instead I follow the recreation trail to a point significantly further down stream. This brings me past a very large number of historic plaques and displays. In fact I took my camera along on a nice day this past week to record it for posterity sake and took a whopping sixty-five pictures. I usually have to fight a pretty stiff breeze most days but the scenery and the fragrance of primroses along the way make riding to my lousy job a little easier to take. Besides I get much needed exercise and save a lot of money on gas. Are there any other bicycle commuters here on mylot? I'd love to hear about everybody's ride whether spectacular, boring or otherwise.