“What a beautiful day and it smells so fresh up here. To think I would have been on the couch watching TV and eating potato chips. What a waste of time that would have been.” he said to himself. Going around the long way was no trouble at all for Plastic Bag; he loved his new bike and did not mind that he was beginning to get tired. He had already gone more than half way up the mountain and was almost out of Gatorade.