As Brita Climate Ride continues its way to Washington, it's worth looking in he rear-view mirror at the weekend. In addition to the start of Brita Climate Ride, Climate Riders who trickled into New York on Friday may have noticed that the city seemed especially green. As part of Park(ing) Day, on-street parking spaces in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx were blissfully transformed . . .(more...)

I can’t believe it. I have pedaled my way to Princeton. No sag wagon for me. I smugly perched high upon my saddle as I pulled into our YMCA campground. Ignoring my sore ankle and my screaming thighs, I gave others the thumbs up and exclaimed “no problem”. In fact, the last 4 miles I had to ride in mostly silence since every breath counted down distance in minutia. Today was our EASY day. Only 45 miles . . . (more...)

I have arrived! In NYC that is. Still have over 300 miles to get to Washington DC. Oh, and by my own horsepower. You would think getting to the point of departure would be easy. However, I think that was just a test to weed out the ones that won’t make the actual ride. I was flabbergasted at how hard it was to get from southern NH to NYC without taking a single occupancy vehicle. First off, (more...)