Modest Mouse -- "I've Got It All (Most)" (2009)

How can someone inconsistent

Mess up so consistently?

That is a VERY good question . . . and one for which I have no answer.

This is not necessarily my second-favorite song on Modest Mouse's No One's First, And You're Next CD, but this line resonated with me.  So this is the song I chose to feature in my account of day two of my Cape Cod Rail Trail ride. (You can click here to read about day one of the trip.)

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I started off at Seymour Pond that day (mile 6 of the trail) and rode a little over 10 miles to the Cape Cod National Seashore visitors' center, where there's a spur trail that takes you to Nauset Bay and Coast Guard Beach:

Most Cape Cod towns are named after English towns: e.g., Chatham, Harwich, Sandwich, Truro, Yarmouth.  I'm not sure how a French name sneaked in:

As this photo of the aptly-named "Dead Man's Curve" so dramatically illustrates, the devilishly twisty and hilly CCRT provides a technical and cardiovascular challenge for even the most skilled cyclist:

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Cobie's is one of a number of the classic Cape Cod clam shacks along the CCRT:

The daily special at Cobie's was tempting:

But I opted for a traditional "Ye Olde Cape Codde" ground beef and guacamole burrito at El Guapo's instead:  

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I had planned to ride the northernmost third of the CCRT the following day, but woke up with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, which hits me every couple of years.  I could barely walk that day, so riding a bike would not have been a good idea.

Click here to listen to "I've Got It All (Most)."

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