Month: June 2010

I’m just leaving Penn Station in New York headed to Summit, New Jersey to see how bike-friendly the route is. Mike & I will have to take this train to reach the beginning of the first leg of our route down to Virginia.

It looks good, numerous ticket machines, good clearance on the walkways, enough storage on the trains and trains every hour. And a Starbucks at the Summit station.

The ride had been hatched in the Jacuzzi at the Casa Blanca Hotel in Mesquite, Nevada last year. My cousin Mike and I were relaxing after a week-long bike ride. We had covered well over a hundred miles, had been on the trail every day and had loved it. In fact we were ready for more. As we let the heat and bubbles of the spa work their magic, we started talking and dreaming.