I think I need a little more of this in my life.

And by ‘this’, I variously mean:

• Dirt roads
• Physical exertion
• Having a camera with me on dirt roads that require physical exertion
• Trainsong without horns, or at least not horns close by, because as scripture tells us, “everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance; everybody thinks it’s true”
• Capturing video, bringing it to clean robust hardware, and editing it with free and open source software
• Publishing video (this is my first public one ever), first on platforms I control utterly, and then selectively on ones that generate revenue (which won’t happen today, but is a priority for Soon)

Plus a whole bunch of stuff that I’ll think of as soon as I hit Submit, because that’s just always.

For the record, this is a first ride of a ‘Lectric’ brand E-bike, which we test drove at their Phoenix home base some days ago, and which costs $999 plus tax, and which arrived via free shipping yesterday. It’s a lot of fun to pilot, and although this is not a review, it seems sturdily built and worth the price both as a means of exercise here at home, and as backup transportation on the road in case the truck goes down–the electrified range on it is about 50 miles and it can be pedaled even with the battery at zero.