Extra Nifty Bike Boogie!! #4 - All along the Delaware (9.00am Sunday 10.19.2008)

Folks:

This weekend's Bike Boogie!! is extra special: a ridiculously scenic ride along the Delaware River, up the towpath from Washington Crossing State Park to (and back from) Lambertville, the river shimmering on the left, the last ridges of the falling Appalachians beneath us, and the peak of fall's colors all around.

We'll gather by 9.00 am (Sunday, October 19) in between the Annenbergs, load up our bikes and drive to Washington Crossing. We'll off load at the park and ride the totally flat towpath 7 miles up river to Lambertville. In Lambertville we'll lock up the bikes, give everyone about a one-hour time limit to wander/shop/kanoodle, then reassemble to ride back, reload, and head back home to Peddie. Back by 1.00, 1.30?, +

Riders will need bike and helmets. I will ask each adult rider for 3 dollars U.S. cash money for transportation costs (fuel for two vehicles & trailer if necessary). Eah rider will also need some pocket money for any expenses in Lambertville. I can help those who are strapped on Sunday.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, or might be interested, YOU NEED TO E-MAIL ME so I can plan for transportation.

IF YOU NEED GEAR, you must inquire so I can gather what's necessary.

MAXIMUM RIDERS: 24 (bus capacity)

Love at 667 mpg,

-- PJClements

Bike Boogie -- Report on #2; Invite for #3, 9.00 am Sunday 10.5.08

This week's Bike Boogie!!! will depart early, at 9.00, so we can ride the Old York Road down through Allentown to the Crosswicks Fire Department's Pancake Breakfast (how sweet might that be?) , and still be back in plenty of time to help out with the Admission Open House. If you think you might be joining the cycling crew, drop me a note (I'll snag some bagels for riders on the way out). If you need to borrow a bike, or a helment, of some other gear, please holler quickly so I can gather up what's necesary. Bring money to the Pancake Breakfast. Be generous [Link to Crosswick's Fire Department].

Last week's Bike Boogie!!! was a quiet ride to Englishtown. Halley Gartner, Jackie Wang and I spun our way through the damp quiet morning, stopping at the Four Brothers Diner / Ice Cream Parlor for some serious breakfast. Rain spat at us, and we had to ford a creek where a bridge was out, but the horses were friendly all along our way, some colts even knickering at Halley as though they somehow knew that he had worked on a horse farm this summer, caring for distant cousins they'd only somehow heard about. Lovely it was, all the day through.  

-- PJClements (pclements@peddie.org)