Today I set off for a bike ride with only half a half baked plan of where to go. In my half baked mind with its half baked plan I thought I would see what the route to work was like. So with half baked google map in my pocket and a half baked idea in my head I was off.
I was OK for the first 10 miles, I knew the way to Esher, although I did go the wrong way in Leatherhead! Esher came quicker than expected and I headed right, through Esher towards Bushy. Wheres Bushy gone? Can't see a large park, ohhh wheres this road go? Ahhhh, I seem to not be in Bushy, this is Kingston. Hey ho, turn left head for Feltham. Ummm Elmhurst, ohhh horrible traffic queue in Sunbury. At least I'm over the river. Now head for Heathrow. Urghhh, SAP HQ? Turn right. Well this is the Heathrow perimeter road, must be as there are loads of people standing around looking at airplanes and police on mountain bikes cecking them out. Wel not too far off track then. Arghhh over the M4, round the corner and there it is, well not actually, but I know the way! Eventually arrived in Stockley Park. Must try harder on the way home. Quick text to wife. 'I was lost but now I am found'. Off again, out the back of the park, right, right, no, back, right, straight, ahhh bike lane. Where am I? carry on, see anything recognisable? A mosque, community centres with loud music playing, women in purder. Ummm it's not the Surrey villages then, it's ........ Southall. Southall, what am I doing here? Isn't that where they had riots once? Keep going Surrey boy. Now where am I? in some housing estate, left, right, left, right, that looks like a main road, head or it before you end up on one of those ghetto estates. Hounslow, head for that. Ahhhh Feltham again, ohhhhh, going again. Kingston bridge. Back on the right side of the river then. Thats where Bushy is then.
The lesson here is, if you have only a half baked idea, go the other way, away from London.
I was OK for the first 10 miles, I knew the way to Esher, although I did go the wrong way in Leatherhead! Esher came quicker than expected and I headed right, through Esher towards Bushy. Wheres Bushy gone? Can't see a large park, ohhh wheres this road go? Ahhhh, I seem to not be in Bushy, this is Kingston. Hey ho, turn left head for Feltham. Ummm Elmhurst, ohhh horrible traffic queue in Sunbury. At least I'm over the river. Now head for Heathrow. Urghhh, SAP HQ? Turn right. Well this is the Heathrow perimeter road, must be as there are loads of people standing around looking at airplanes and police on mountain bikes cecking them out. Wel not too far off track then. Arghhh over the M4, round the corner and there it is, well not actually, but I know the way! Eventually arrived in Stockley Park. Must try harder on the way home. Quick text to wife. 'I was lost but now I am found'. Off again, out the back of the park, right, right, no, back, right, straight, ahhh bike lane. Where am I? carry on, see anything recognisable? A mosque, community centres with loud music playing, women in purder. Ummm it's not the Surrey villages then, it's ........ Southall. Southall, what am I doing here? Isn't that where they had riots once? Keep going Surrey boy. Now where am I? in some housing estate, left, right, left, right, that looks like a main road, head or it before you end up on one of those ghetto estates. Hounslow, head for that. Ahhhh Feltham again, ohhhhh, going again. Kingston bridge. Back on the right side of the river then. Thats where Bushy is then.
The lesson here is, if you have only a half baked idea, go the other way, away from London.
