Although I could not get an photos yesterday I did manage to "steal" a couple from a couple from a couple of colleagues on the ride. The first is a great shot of one of the several lakes along the roads through
Harriman park - I would love to come back when the colors change. The second is where we crossed the Hudson River, Bear Mountain bridge - a very impressive body of water. And finally at a commemorative plaque for the Battle of
Saratoga, one of the critical points for the Revolution, one of our
yankee riders poses with the lone Brit under his conquering heel - cute shot.....
Today we left
Suffern and were across the border into New Jersey within a few minutes. We leave the hotel about 7:30 so we were jumping into the rush hour in one of the most populous areas of the state. And to complicate matters we left with a heavy cover of fog - of course this means that the glasses are covered with moisture within minutes (I just slide them down my nose and keep going). Once into NJ we passed first through
Mahwah where I lived for a few years before American Re moved us down to Princeton. It really was a trip down memory lane. Our route did not take us right by the old house but we did go through Ramsey,
Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, all little towns where we knew a lot of people and spent a lot of time. Amazingly enough I even saw an old friend in his car as we were turning a corner - kind of an amazing experience even if I couldn't stop him to chat for awhile. From then on it was a trip through the really heavily populated parts of New Jersey. We went through a ton of residential areas, made what seemed like 198 turns (probably less but seemed like a huge number), and had a bit of climbing as well but not as bad as the previous couple of days. We went through East Hanover,
Chatham Twp and finally into the Bound Brook/Somerset area. One of the obvious things we saw along the way were the many signs of the flooding from Irene. Especially in Bound Brook there are still sandbags in some of the streets and the piles of trash are everywhere.
For the day we did 66 miles which was pretty comfortable - preparation for our 79 miles to
Hammonton tomorrow. We will be passing right through West Windsor which will be our new hometown after November. And I'm hoping Susan might be able to find her way down to catch dinner with me tomorrow night - the luxury of biking through the home state.
And the final bit for the day....the parts for the bike showed up as hoped for and our mechanic had it all put together and ready for testing when we arrived at the hotel this afternoon. Much as I enjoyed the borrowed bikes I'm more than ready to have my own back for the duration.
Although I could not get an photos yesterday I did manage to "steal" a couple from a couple from a couple of colleagues on the ride. The first is a great shot of one of the several lakes along the roads through Harriman park - I would love to come back when the colors change. The second is where we crossed the Hudson River, Bear Mountain bridge - a very impressive body of water. And finally at a commemorative plaque for the Battle of Saratoga, one of the critical points for the Revolution, one of our yankee riders poses with the lone Brit under his conquering heel - cute shot.....
Today we left Suffern and were across the border into New Jersey within a few minutes. We leave the hotel about 7:30 so we were jumping into the rush hour in one of the most populous areas of the state. And to complicate matters we left with a heavy cover of fog - of course this means that the glasses are covered with moisture within minutes (I just slide them down my nose and keep going). Once into NJ we passed first through Mahwah where I lived for a few years before American Re moved us down to Princeton. It really was a trip down memory lane. Our route did not take us right by the old house but we did go through Ramsey, Wyckoff, Franklin Lakes, all little towns where we knew a lot of people and spent a lot of time. Amazingly enough I even saw an old friend in his car as we were turning a corner - kind of an amazing experience even if I couldn't stop him to chat for awhile. From then on it was a trip through the really heavily populated parts of New Jersey. We went through a ton of residential areas, made what seemed like 198 turns (probably less but seemed like a huge number), and had a bit of climbing as well but not as bad as the previous couple of days. We went through East Hanover, Chatham Twp and finally into the Bound Brook/Somerset area. One of the obvious things we saw along the way were the many signs of the flooding from Irene. Especially in Bound Brook there are still sandbags in some of the streets and the piles of trash are everywhere.
For the day we did 66 miles which was pretty comfortable - preparation for our 79 miles to Hammonton tomorrow. We will be passing right through West Windsor which will be our new hometown after November. And I'm hoping Susan might be able to find her way down to catch dinner with me tomorrow night - the luxury of biking through the home state.
And the final bit for the day....the parts for the bike showed up as hoped for and our mechanic had it all put together and ready for testing when we arrived at the hotel this afternoon. Much as I enjoyed the borrowed bikes I'm more than ready to have my own back for the duration.
So envious!
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ReplyDelete@Barb..do it next year! @Beth..Frank McCann, do you remember the McCanns. Same big beard but now gray, same glowering look. He was turning right while we (8 of us on bikes) were turning left. Blew me away....
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