[enjoyLIFErides] Today's Ride Report

[Enjoy LIFE. Ride with us. Have bike, will travel!]

Went out around 8 AM.  Figured I'd get some miles in before meeting up with 
folks at Dunkin Donuts.  Brrr...  24 degrees.

Got to DD around 8:45 AM and got myself a warm drink.  Went back out and 
suited back up.  I was solo.  No matter.  Ran up to Upper Greenwood Lake and 
the surrounding areas.  Dodged lots of cinders, salt, sporadic ice and 
pebbles / dust on the roads but had a really nice ride.  Stopped to chat 
with some guys ice fishing on the lake but couldn't get close enough to 
really have a conversation.  We pretty much traded "you're the crazy one, 
not me" glances...

There must be 2-3" of snow right by Lake Shore Drive and that area...

Ran down some back roads to Route 10 via my GPS' "avoid anything that is a 
major highway but stay off gravel roads" setting.  Passed some cool stuff. 
Either an Alpaca or Llama farm complete with warning signs that they might 
be crossing the road and some bear crossing signs.

Got to Minado at around 11:10 AM and warmed up a bit.  Nobody showed for 
food either so I opted for the brownie points and ran home.

It was a great day and I racked up 97 miles per the odometer, 101 per the 
GPS.  I missed the company, but enjoyed being able to saunter along some 
really deserted roads and the challenge of crossing some ice sheeting from 
time to time...  I know, I'm strange that way...

Only negative of the day was on my way home...  On 287 and then on 80, the 
same BMW cut me off within about 2' of my front wheel twice.  It was as if 
she was *trying* to put me on the pavement...  So I backed way off and 
simply let her go after someone else.

I only saw two other bikes today...  One was parked at Harold's Deli on 46 
as one of the guys there commutes on it (Sportster) and a Schwin pedal bike 
somewhere on the desolate and wooded roads between 23N and 10 that I took...

Hope to see you on the road soon and happy 2008!

Joe in Northern, NJ  -  V#8013-R

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