It was cross-training day today...to be precise, just a bike ride to the Playa del Rey beach and back -- about 8 miles and getting easier every day. It's amazing what an evolution machine the human body is. With every day the ride is getting easier and I get less sore. Which means that I can go faster. However, when I tallied the miles and the time, it came to only 16 mph on a Cannondale mountain bike with knobby tires. In reality, though, the upwind speed might have been 14-16 mph and the downwind speed, about 16-18 mph. Make no mistake, the wind is a significant factor if you are along the coast during the evening. The land is still warm and the the cool ocean breeze rushes in and you feel it on every push. It's a great workout with a perfect payout -- amazing views of the ocean and you could probably see all the way to China if the world were flat. Nice!
Talk about two-chord songs. The Dewey Bunnell classic, "Horse with No Name" is a two-chord wonder and until you start learning to play it, you don't realize that it is just two chords. There could be whole genre of songs that were based on just two chords and I wonder if someone actually would compile a list of songs that had only two chords. Which reminds me that I need to plug the wonderful guitar tutorial site, guitarnoise.com. Thanks to a great teacher like David Hodge, if more people expressed their emotions and passions through the guitar, there might be, perhaps, more universal spiritual connections found through the music. Which is why I should say that folks like BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dylan, and Hendrix have been one of the greatest spiritual unifiers ever. Play a Hendrix riff in Shillong or Sao Paulo...it'll satisfy the soul without any of the regimen, rules, and self-righteousness of a modern-day religion.
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