Last weekend, Pete, Wook, and I participated in the annual Century Ride, a New York City bike ride hosted by Transportation Alternatives. At 4:30 in the morning, Pete and I woke up (painful on a Sunday) and took the subway to the north end of Central Park. We then rode down Manhattan (crazy to ride my bike down Broadway virtually traffic free) and into Brooklyn. Pete and Wook finished the 75 mile ride (which at the last minute became an 86 mile ride, going into Queens and then back to Central Park). I ended in Coney Island and rode back to our apartment, completing about 40 miles. Any more, and my kids would have had a substitute on Monday.
It's been a long time since I've been on the Brooklyn Bridge (other than as a driver), and I forgot how breathtaking it is to see Brooklyn in front of you and Manhattan behind you (just as the sun is rising, too). I don't know why, but I've been filled with New York pride lately. Perhaps it's because fall is in the air (and that's the best season to be in NYC, in my opinion). New York, New York!
The Brooklyn Bridge facing Brooklyn, Governor's Island, the Verrazano Bridge into Staten Island, at the original Nathan's.
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