Part 2: Riding the Mohawk.
Veered away from the Hudson River, cycling through old milltown Cohoes through Colonie to Niskayuna and the Mohawk River. Followed the trail through Schenectady, Scotia and Rotterdam, passing two locks of the Erie Canal. Driver picked me up and drove to Jumping Jacks Drive-In in Scotia. Got my clam roll after all.
Biking the Hudson River. The photos start in Henry Hudson Park in Bethlehem, north through the pretty Van Wies neighborhood, then into Albany and off the road and onto the Mohawk-Hudson bike trail. Next up - photos from the Mohawk section.
My overdue birthday ride along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers earlier this month. Biked south from Albany, New York along the Hudson River, then returned north to catch the start of the Mohawk-Hudson bike trail and rode the 40 miles to the end of the trail in Rotterdam. Fifty pounds of bike and gear and well over 50 pounds of me on a three speed bike 56 miles to equal my years alive. I usually make the trip in January, sometimes over ice and snow and always in the cold. It’s prettier and more hospitable in May.
It’s funny how a bike ride that starts from your front steps can take you so far away. At one point I blanked out and thought I was on the Cape Cod Rail Trail somewhere near Orleans. It didn’t matter that I was within 50 miles of home. Except that there were no clam shacks along the trail.
The pics follow. Part 1: The Hudson. Part 2: The Mohawk. No filters. Lots of pedaling.
In October I gave a TEDx talk at Columbia College. It just came online today. Essence of the talk is how our worldview is negatively affected by good stories.
Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA
Mythic (by Joshua Cripps)
http://sportliterate.org/wp-content/uploads/Rookie-League.pdf
We love this Boston cover.
Brilliant cover from Boston design director Brian Struble – Photograph by Mitch Feinberg.
Nearly every time when I was writing guidebooks for Lonely Planet, and I’d tell someone in the US what I did, they’d nod, listen about “guidebooks” and “travel information so people could plan their own holidays,” then they”d invariably ask:
Most Americans really don’t know what a guidebook is. I think more should. So I thought I’d explain how to use a guidebook.
Yosemite National Park, California, USA
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