Highways and byways

Some of the cycling i had to do on the roads to cycle over the only bridge you are allowed cycle into New York on, was adventurous to say the least. I had been on a canal path that lead from parts of Pennsylvania up through New Jersey, taking in princeton and many other nice towns along the way. But this track like the rail trail has been badly affected by the copious amounts of rain they had on the east coast of the US in the last two months after hurricane irene.There were trees down, parts of the path washed away, so it made it tough going on the touring bike, and was a lot more suitable for mountain biking. But i eventually got off that, i won't even mention the part where i ended up going the wrong way, and eventually figured out my mistake. Thankfully it didn't set me back too far. But the roads coming into New York, no road is going to be quiet going into New York City, even on a saturday morning. And when you have to cross two lanes of traffic to get to your slip road you are certainly taking your life into your hands. So the high visability jacket was on, plenty hand signals, i'm sure a lot of cursing and swearing by drivers and i made it there. Then to avoid the real craziness on the cross bronx expressway i took a few back roads up through yonkers, spoke to a few locals who told me how to get across toward connecticut and the sea and tipped away along up by the long island sound. Two more days off here and i will be on my last leg toward boston which will take a few days as i will head out to Cape Cod on my way, just to finish it off before rolling into Boston next the weekend.