Loop!
by sam on 08/24/2008Today, instead of just going down one road and following the same route back, I decided to be adventurous and actually loop around lower manhattan, returning up the east side…
It was nice, except that, on the east side, you get kicked off the greenway at around 34th street. All of the maps say that you pretty quickly loop back onto the greenway once you’re past the UN, but due to construction and other things blocking the way, I actually ended up on 1st and York all the way up to 72nd street. Which meant not only riding in traffic, but riding in UN diplomatic traffic (meaning cars driven by people who have clearly never had to qualify for a NY driver’s license). So that was…interesting. Needless to say, I made it back alive, but my middle finger got a bit more exercise than normal on that leg of the trip. There may have also been some yelling.
Now I need to go eat something, because it’s 1pm, I just did a 3 hour ride (including traffic “delays”), and I’m starving.
Tags: cycling, new york city