Is it vertigo where you lose your sense of balance and fall over, or is it something else? I've fallen over in the snow in a whiteout where you lose the horizon and have no idea if you are moving or standing still and the next thing you know you are lying on your side with an ear full of powder.
I thought something similar was going to happen whilst riding into work yesterday. The mist was so thick, visibility was down to 50 feet or so. When riding around The Bay, the far shore was just a slightly dark grey sludge than the colour of the mist. The surface of the water was completely covered in mist. Mist, mist, mist, and not a drop to drink!
The nice thing about it was that the mist absorbed all the normal traffic noise. I was almost riding in silence. I'd hear the occasional noisy truck go by on the road next door, but couldn't hear any of the cars.
The cars were strangely silent, given that it was the morning of the game against Croatia. I figured things mustn't have gone well since only one car drove past our house that morning with the horn a-tooting. Even then, he only gave a few desultory toots - it wasn't the normally frantic and manic toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot that goes on and on and on until the car is out of hearing range.
Silly me.
All the locals are supporting Italy. Maybe Italy did badly? Who knows.
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