Biking in New Paltz

First of all to who ever sent my mom that creepy message from the Relay operator, I'm on to you.

Anyway . . This past weekend was fun for Mom, Frank and Me.

Mom and Frank went upstate on a fun biking expedition. They got on Metro North and went to Poughkeepsie. From Poughkeepsie they biked about 12 miles to New Paltz. Mom realized that fresh air and no traffic really brings out the fact that she is a city biker and out of shape for mountains.

Frank was loving it, and had no problem with the hills.


They got to their hotel and hung around, and then biked a mile or so into town. They passed a bunch of hippies and professor types and this crazy bar filled with college girls in short skirts and meat heads.

The next morning they set out to bike to a Winery in Marlborough. It was about 20 miles away.

By the time that they got there they got drunk off one sip of wine. It was so much fun to see pretty mountains and taste and learn about wine.

For lunch they went down this big hill toward the tiny town of Marlborough and ate at "The raccoon Saloon". On the way there mom barked it bad at an intersection when she could not get her food out of the toe clip. It was soo funny, mom went smashing to the ground sideways in slow motion. All mom could do was laugh!

They biked 20 miles back to the hotel after a great lunch of burgers and sweet potato fries, and took a nap.

They woke up, and went back in to the town of New Paltz and ate some good Turkish type food, and a place where the waitress was stressed out by the 5 full tables and could not handle the task of serving.

Frank was hungrey and not in the mood for slow service!

It made mom realize the the fast pace and the stress of living and working in the city has made her tolerance for juggling Multiple tasks great!

After dinner they went back to the room to watch the rest of the "Law and Order SVU" Saturday night marathon and passed out from wine, biking and a lot of food!


On Sunday they had these great notions of biking the 60 miles back to Manhattan, but it was rainy and cold and would have sucked. Too bad they power ate the night before for the trek!
They ended up getting a mile or so on the road back to the train on Poughkeepsie, when Frank got a flat in his rear tire and could not get the bolt off cause it was stripped.

That is when Mary and Garth the Christian savior's on their way back from Church in a jeep pulled over to the side of the road and offered them a ride to the train.
Mom and Frank took their ride and kindness and happily went in the car got on the train headed back to the city, biked home to Brooklyn said hi to me and layed down on the coutch!

As for me, I went over to my dog walkers house for the weekend and played with his dogs!
What a fun weekend!