Category: NJ / NY State trips
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Biking one week through an obscure part of the Northeast, September 18-25, 2021
A weeklong bicycle tour through the middle of nowhere in Upstate NewYork and Pennsylvania? Why not!!! The focus of this tour was the sixty-two mile long north / south Pine Creek Rail Trail in north central Pennsylvania. On the map below it is the line between Wellsboro PA and Jersey Shore PA. My friend Lyman…
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Southwestern New York State during a pandemic; July 22-26, 2020
I follow the weather obsessively on my I-phone. I had just bicycled in the mountains of North Carolina. Where else could I bicycle tour during a pandemic with cooler weather? It seemed just plain hot everywhere. How far north would I have to drive to find weather not so oppressive? What type of 2…
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Ride out Long Island, south shore, May 30 – June 3, 2019
This trip had been on my bucket list of many years, to ride the length of Long Island. To a Southerner, Long Island seemed this exotic place, its New Yorkedness accentuated by its physical isolation. (Those living on Long Island essentially have to go through New York City to go anywhere else.) Was…
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Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA to Binghamton NY, Sept. 15-18, 2017
This part of the country does not get many tourists. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area was built around coal mining and offshoot heavy industries. The cities have been losing population for the last fifty years. I chose Wilkes-Barre specifically as a starting point because it is right on I-81 which comes up through Virginia. …
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