Category: NJ / NY State trips
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Hudson River Valley: NYC La Guardia airport to Albany NY; July 13-18, 2017
It is hot in North Carolina in July. Seeking to go cycle somewhere with less oppressive heat, I searched the internet for air travel deals. While not a summer destination as ideal as, say, Burlington, Vermont, I could travel nonstop on American Airlines to and from New York City’s La Guardia airport on…
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Central New Jersey, February 6, 2015
I drove in a rental car up to Princeton to stay with my sister Betsy, and see my brother Alex and his band perform in Brooklyn. My major plans for a huge New Jersey ride went out the window. The weather, in New Jersey style, was just too unpleasant, and I scaled it back to…
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Jersey Shore, Cape May to Atlantic City, May 11, 2014
New Jersey towns change from one to another like night and day. This ride up the south Jersey shore accentuated that. I arrived at Cape May, the southernmost tip of New Jersey, by ferry from Delaware. I had been to Cape May a couple times previously, but many years ago. I was prepared to say…
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Across the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Atlantic City to Philadelphia May 12, 2014
There is a Sopranos episode where the city boys coming to the Jersey Pine Barrens find out that doing a mob hit in the wilderness can get much more complicated than expected. This area of south central New Jersey really does sometimes feel like a wilderness, although in places it is as close as thirty…
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