Thursday, June 7, 2007

"Disc Golf" or "Adventures in a new city"

On Tuesday evening Josh and I set out to find a disc golf course. This was a difficult undertaking because of a few complications. I don't have a car and Josh's car was parked a half mile away, so taking our bikes seemed much easier. We had no internet in the dorms because we didn't have login names. We do have a lappy with us, courtesy of Dr. Li, so we biked to Panero's, a sandwich place, for dinner and used their wireless internet to look up Belmont Park and memorize the map so we could bike there. We stopped off at Josh's car to leave the lappy and procure his discs and then we realized we had made a mistake: We knew how to get to Belmont from the dorm, not from his car. But Josh said he thought he knew how to get us there so off we went...

3 miles later we had found the road that we knew ran N-S just west of the park, but not the park. We rode south about a half mile and didn't find it, so we asked a couple that was waiting at the bus stop:
"Belmont Park, I don't know where that is, but it's probably in Dayton."
Cue dramatic music! I thought we were in Dayton! How far had we veered from our intended path?
"Um, where are we now?"
"You're in Kettering."
"Oh, well, I guess we need to go back north then."

North we did go, and found the park maybe a mile in the other direction. I had been told that while Dayton itself isn't that big, the cities just run into each other so that the Dayton area goes for miles. Josh and I now have first hand experience with that.

The disc golf course was quite nice. A good mix of hills, trees, long and short holes. It was a good time. I am definitely going to get buff from riding up all the hills around here though.

2 comments:

Wendijoan said...

Fun to read...thanks for doing this.

From your most dedicated fan,
Mom

Unknown said...

Peter, brother, brother-in-law, uncle (almost),
Great to hear how things are going. We thought your blog was amusing. We'll be eyeballing the cam and watching over your shoulder. :) Kelly, Ann, and baby, too