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Back when I was working in Colorado, I stayed at a house near a very large golden field.

It felt like I had to come out of a movie since I'm from New York and I rarely get to

see the horizon like I did back then.

There were other things I liked aside from the wide open spaces.

Things like how everybody there seemed to be into outdoor activities.

But since I was there temporarily, I didn't have a bicycle or a canoe like apparently every

car had attached to it over there.

But one of my work friends had a bike that let me.

And I started by riding around the fields in the houses.

It's a different feeling you get just by walking around in neighborhoods with different

sidewalks and styles of pretty much everything.

One day, after work, I started riding around the block on that old bike, squeaking all

around the shady streets.

If I went a little ways down the road, I would end up by the edge of the golden fields.

Not sure if they were wheat or something else, but they looked amazing with the glowing

sunset light in the shade of the nearby mountains.

I spent some time just leading against the bike, watching as a car off into the distance

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