( I really enjoyed playing tourist in New York on Tuesday. )

Home at last. Yaaaaaay.

Exhausted. Zzzzzzzz.

Connecticut traffic engineers working on I-95 should be shot. Raaaaaaawr.

I'm contemplating trying another long-distance bike trek, sometime next spring. My thought is to fly down to somewhere in Florida, sometime mid-spring when it's still cool in New England, and work my way north -- thus the hotter southern climes will follow me back to Massachusetts, or something ( Read more... )

One of the stops I'd like to make on my roadtrip down the Atlantic coast is, naturally, New York City. However, if New York traffic is anything like Boston's, I don't want to be muddling around in a traffic jam all day. One of the things I was considering was taking my bike along on the road trip, possibly on a rear rack, and use that for local ( Read more... )

In my job, I only get to roll over three weeks' worth of vacation each year. This means I have to use up a certain amount of vacation before September 30 this year. I decided to snag the entire week before Labor Day, which means I effectively have Saturday, August 29 through Monday, September 7 to vacation with. As I'm trying to be economical, I ( Read more... )