Escape the city, this was really what I needed after all the work in the lab, and all the fast ticking New York minutes. The plan was to take the train halfway to Princeton, and then bike the last part to Princeton and eat an ice cream there (you always have to reward yourself!). We (Jun - from my lab, Kate - Jun's girlfriend, Kleopatra - from another lab, and I) started on early Sunday morning to catch the train. We were unlucky, no bikes were allowed in the train because of Memorial Day weekend.
Plan B:
I will give you a short description of this sweaty bike tour, I think the pictures say the rest! We went all the way up along the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge. The weather was splendid, warm, bright, sunny, hot,and.. well, you get the idea. We were sweating before we could say 'sweat', and we had to refresh our layer of sun cream very often! But no complains here, we've been waiting so long for the summer to come!
We crossed the Hudson River on the GW Bridge, with beautiful views on the island of Manhattan! Now we were in New Jersey, out of NYC, out of the crowd, in another state. (Now I can tick of 2 states ;)). We followed the Hudson River up north, and we girls wanted to rest, take pictures, drink, drink, drink, and pee on top of every little hill! (Poor Jun had to wait for us all the time..).
On the way back we popped into a 'Royal Diner' to eat a not so royal salad. To return to Manhattan we decided to take the ferry, which was a terrific plan. Great views on all the (ugly) sky scrapers on the little island of Manhattan. Pretty strange actually that so many people live on such a small piece of land. NJ was real empty. And green!
We covered 42 sweaty sunny miles and this made me realize: I miss my bike(s).
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