Crossing the same river twice

How you can never take the same trip twice

No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and they’re not the same person. - Heraclitus (*I amended to gender-neutral)

I started riding pre-dawn to make the most of the lower headwind in the morning. In under an hour, I reached the top of the pass I had been climbing up since the previous afternoon, and then began my very lon…