01 9 / 2010
Fall I want fall to come already. Harriman State Park New York, last November.
20 4 / 2010
New England Rocky Shores Northern Pelham Bay, Bronx
In contrast to Breezy Point, this is the northernmost tip of New York City, the beginnings of the New England shoreline. It’s also the longest bike trip we ever did that summer. For my fellow Brooklynites, it was around 60 miles roundtrip. We took our time — 5 hours to make it up there. We sat and picnicked at a man-made beach, Orchard Beach, where the sand is lifted from the Rockaways. Next up… biking to suburbia? We were quite close.
20 4 / 2010
Private Beaches Breezy Point, Rockaways, Queens
All you need is good weather and bike buddies. This was our last successful beach/bike trip of 2009, in October, when we bypassed the “No Trespassing” signs and made our way to a largely secluded beach at the southernmost tip of the Rockaways. The beach is surrounded by miles (?) of thickets, marshes, dunes which makes it difficult to get to from the main paved roads. Some thickets were so tall and impenetrable that we couldn’t see past them. We could tell we were close to the water because of the familiar ocean scent. We thought OKAY, if we don’t get to the beach within 10 minutes, we should turn around. I had a mountain bike back then so I plunged ahead and I was the first to discover the signs and gates to the beach. No footprints, but dense tire marks — and of course after we left, thin marks from our bicycles. We carried our bikes and wandered and admired the wild landscape so different from our everyday urban lives. And all we had to do was ride our bikes ~15 miles south from our Brooklyn homes.
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