Back to the humid reality

"I'll be back" - it's what I said. Here I am after a short disappearance when I spent quality time with my family in Northern California. And it turned out that early July that place was clearly the best place to be. When Boston was cooking at 100F (38C) and Los Angeles was getting crispy in a 115F (46C) heat wave, the coast north of San Francisco has barely seen 70F (21C) - in the afternoon. Because early morning we needed heating on in our house since it was only 54F (12C) outside.

Now you will understand if I say that I would clearly move there if I could...

Meanwhile, when I was gone, the town of Arlington went through a small transformation - the Lime Bikes arrived! This dockless bike share system turned out to be quite popular initially, but we'll see how popular it would be after one year.

I see these green bikes everywhere in our town, but unfortunately, sometimes they end up being a bit abused. I guess, because of their dockless design, you can picture these bikes being dumped in a ditch and that's happening already. Hopefully, such cases will remain infrequent.

I have high hopes for Lime Bike and I wouldn't want them to share the fate of dockless scooters - now undergoing regulations in San Francisco and other cities. They are seen as "dangerous" and "disruptive", even though (truly dangerous) dockless cars roam freely through our cities and occupy astounding amount of space:

Anyway, summer is here, which means weather is unpredictable and you never know if it's going to be sunny or rainy. The only predictable thing in Boston in July is humidity - it's always high, which makes me not want to ride my bike this week. On the other hand, at least we don't have problems with wild fires in New England. It's just too moist for that.

Meanwhile, Greece is on fire, Sweden is on fire, Southern California is bone dry and at high risk, Arctic is melting and generally the whole world is roasting. But no worries. Thanks to our brilliant administration who proclaimed global warming a hoax, things will get better very soon. We all will soon be riding dockless bikes on car-free streets!