Cant remember the last time I had this much fun with a group of people.
Friday was just an awesome day with a best of the hudson valley that folks have been talking about all weekend, Croton Dam from below and from the walkway, 301 to Cold Spring, the tunnel on 9D, the Goat Trail, Cliff Road from West Point to Bannerman Island overlook, Perkins Memorial Drive Seven Lakes Drive and great fellowship
Guess who came for dinner Friday and moved in. Gig from Michigan who just started a job in Jersey, but he is gone now to ride a 10 speed thru NYC
Got to share great times with BigD and Little D from near Buffalo, see Dyno Dave from Wappingers Falls, Dan-Bury from Ct, Karen from Mass and Ron-Bou from (where is he from anyways lol), meet Matt and Lynn from Mass, my good friends, Rick and Deb from Shippensburg PA and Chrome and Sue from London Ontario, meet Stewart & Kristin (D's brother and fiance from LagrangevilleNY
Saturday we added my friend Bonzo from Chester NY (Mazel Tov on your daughters upcoming wedding)and my good riding buddy G-Man and his son Eric (Cheryl, Gman's lovely wife and daughter Keiko came later in the evening)
Saturday ride we went straight up 9 to the Goat Trail and over the Bear Mtn bridge where Bonzo was waiting and he led us all into 7 Lakes to Arden Drive and 17A, across the ski area ridge roads the back way to the Delaware Water Gap Port Jervis and up to Hawks Nest and lunch 30 miles beyond. IT poured at lunch but only sprinked on us for about half an hour on the way back.
A stop at Orange County Chopppers where Chrome got Sue a T shirt that he will have to say what it says cause I am a gentleman but it sure is a nice shirt
We took 84 to the Taconic back home and Bonnie and I prepared a nice spread for dinner. Was a fine evening and day
Yesterday was supposed to be T storms all day so we took 3 cars to NYC and the sun was out all the way. We boarded the Circle Line at 11 and what a terrific view and experience if you have never had the opportunity its one of the great values in NYC, and a fine 2 hours on the water and feeling the breezes in the harbor. Outdoor lunch at a diner on 10th Ave and then back to the docks where the line for Intrepid was too much so we went back home for ice cream and telling of tall tales till dinner. The rain started as we drove home and it was a good thing we had the cars. NYC is tough sometimes even for me and for folks from small town america or canada it could have been a bad scene. SOmetimes prudence is best and it was in this case.
Now everyone is gone and I have to go through a bunch of pics and post a link
Maybe I will get to it later.
Thanks everyone who came. Hope you had as much fun as I did and see some of you in 2 weeks at the Blue Grey
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Who know D was a former chef at a restaurant in town so we all went to dinner and had great chow.
