phantom-eyed

Updated: May 1, 2025

So far, the road continues level and fairly good; and, notwithstanding the seductive pleasures of the ride over the bounding billows of the gently heaving macadam, the dalliance with the scenery, and the all too frequent dismounts in deference to the objections of phantom-eyed roadsters, I pulled up at San Pablo at ten o'clock, having covered the sixteen miles in one hour and thirty-two minutes; though, of course, there is nothing speedy about this to which desirable qualification, indeed, I lay no claim.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran