Category: NJ / NY State trips
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Lawn Guyland, 3/29-4/02, 2014
Lyman and I delayed starting our three day bike ride from Brooklyn to the eastern tip of Long Island because of weather: rainy, with temperatures in the thirties. We finally started Monday morning east of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, with a prediction that the weather would clear by noon. A mix of drizzle and…
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Searching for Don Draper (or Rob Petrie), Westchester NY, 10/27-28/2012
This trip was to be about the New York City suburbs. Don Draper lived in Ossining NY. He commuted every weekday on the train to the advertising office in Manhattan. Sometimes he drove the distance in his 1962 Cadillac. As fate would have it, due to Hurricane Sandy, I never made it to Ossining; I…
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Buffalo to Rochester to Syracuse, August 2012
This is a story about a bike ride, the buildings we saw, and about the people. Since I did not do this alone, this ride was about Lyman and Steve. We rode about 190 miles in five days, Buffalo to Rochester to Syracuse, old industrial cities along the old Erie Canal. The Erie…
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The Jersey Shore, October 15 – 18 2011
Sure, I know, Joey Buttafuoco is from Long Island, not the Jersey Shore. And I actually have never seen more than five minutes of the TV reality show Jersey Shore. I did like the movie My Cousin Vinnie. As a Southerner, this kind of style and lifestyle of the Northeast seems exotic to me. So I wanted to…
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