Boston and New York (Picture BLOG)

Time to take a week and go see a few things.  So off we went to Boston and New York City.

Freedom Trail... with the Mass State house in the background. You just follow the red line and walk down a history lesson - lots of fun and very interesting.

Hamster at Bunker Hill, Battle took place in 1775....  We climbed up inside the monument, 297 steps, you really feel it the next days in the legs.  Would be great training.

Boston Common in the evening..

500 Boylston St - the building featured in the US show - Boston Legal... 'Denny Crane'.

Cheers.    Photo Op only.  Didn't partake in an ale this time.

Bikes can always be victims... Sad

Squirrels running all over the place in Boston Common.. They don't mind having their photo taken...

Sam Adams - and 'Cheers' it was to quite a number of his finest...

The view from the Top of the Hub Restaurant.  This place in on top of the Prudential Building, also known as the Pru.  Great restaurant, wonderful food, very friendly staff and amazing views.

I met a frog friend in the Common.......

Well 3 and a half days enjoying Boston it was time to head south to the Big Apple for a few days, say hello to Julia, Nic and the boys, take in the sights, see a show and generally absorb the atmosphere.

Brooklyn Bridge from down on Pier 17......

Take NY by the balls.  There is no Bear around here - Actually there's too much Bull.!!!  They should put up a Bear next to this fella or at least a Matador - some symbol to tame the Bull going forward or we'll simply see another cycle and the same thing will happen.

Then Up in the air we go for some aerial sight seeing.....

South NYC by the air - what a great ride...

The new New York Yankees stadium - it is built right next door to the old one.....

Central park from above

The Lady of NYC from the air - a far easier way then lining up with about 5000 people down at Battery Park trying to catch the ferry out to the island.


Chicago in New York - Great show

Jazz band in Central Park - nice and relaxing for 20 or so minutes 

Times Square....

All in all NYC is one hell of a busy place

Well it was a fun week away and much needed.  I wish I could be on holidays for 3 months - alas, back to reality.

Cheers.

Spring has Arrived...

Its only another week and it will have been 6 months since I left Australia - time flies. With the arrival of Spring and warmer weather comes the time to hit the road.  Last weekend (April 26th) the temperature hit 34 degrees C and that's the maximum temp around here in the last 6 months.  

The route I have done a few times so far starts from a local high school car park which is only 3 miles from my place.  The ride goes south-west from Mechanicsburg to a place called Boiling Springs - nice little town with a small lake in the middle on which people hire boats and do a bit of fishing.   They also have a small fun park/water park with a few slides etc but still not open for another month.  From the first cruise of the main street the only cafe has closed and is auctioning off its inventory so that's a lot worse than Bobo's coffee.  Oh well, its only 13 miles from home and not the target for a general stop on future rides.  

Lake in Boiling Springs.....

Hamster's Black Beauty ready to go.....

When in America.......  

I found my old Motorola American Champions jersey so thought I would see how it went in its own backyard.  

On the way home I meet a rider, named Bob who works in the Harley Davidson factory down in York and rides as part of his cross training for weightlifting, nice fellow.  As I meet some more locals hopefully I will get to know where the better roads are to ride.  I would like to also know where the better cafes are but I think that might be stretching it a bit as there doesn't seem to be any cafes as we know them anywhere.....the search will continue all the same.

More sunshine means more rides [no excuses now].

Til next time.

Cheers.