Last week there was an interesting piece in The Washington Post, in which Gabriel Horchler describes his commute:

Bicycle No. 1 gets me from home in Cheverly to the Bladensburg waterfront, where I launch a 24-foot shell for the seven-mile row to the Capital Rowing Club dock at 11th Street SE. Then I ride one mile on Bike No. 2 to my job at the Library of Congress. At day’s end, I take Metro to the Cheverly Station and ride home on Bike No. 3. The following day, the steps are reversed. This has been my routine for seven years. It has kept me relatively sound of mind and body and made me very familiar with the Anacostia River.

That’s an impressive route, but the real point of the article is to highlight the filthy state of the Anacostia River—which sounds remarkably similar to Melbourne’s Yarra.

[via TheWashCycle]

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