O.k., not all of us woke raring to go. A certain teen actually had to be woken up ...
The first part of our ride was fairly quick and uneventful, ending at the Brooklyn Fairway where we chowed down on apple fritters, muffins, hot chocolate, coffee and tea on the patio. We were a bit chilly because we had all managed to underdress just a wee bit.
Properly fed, we then pedaled the short distance to Ikea -- to discover that they did not open for another 45 minutes. That led us to look for and find 2 geocaches. Yea!Returning to Ikea, Mike went in and restocked our supply of lingonberry juice concentrate. And chocolate.
Now that we had secured life's necessities, Mike was eager to play with the geocaching mode on his new phone and was quite amiable to more caching. All told, we attempted 7 caches and found 4 today, bringing our total to 150. Not-So-Little Squid and I have declared a goal of at least 200 caches by the end of the summer. This means that we may actually have to cache outside of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
While approaching the site of our third cache of the day, we skidded to a halt when we spotted this:
These folks are building bamboo frame bikes. Cool!
Over all, a good day. 23 miles over 4 hours with lots of stops for caching.
3 comments:
awesome! you can come visit me, the fairway near to us should open in less than 30 days... though i'm not 100% certain how to get there in a bike friendly way. ... as mr not-so-little squid will probably beat me to a full license i should probably figure this out. ;)
Sounds like a wonderful way to spend the weekend.
Yay for great bike rides! It's supposed to be beautiful this weekend, so I'm sure you'll be out again! We're hoping to ride too.
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