New Jersey

Robert and Carolyn

Got up at 4:30 AM at some marina around Fairfield CT (the guards knew), to take off before the rain started. It was freezing anyway, what’s a point to stay in the hammock till later.– Cycled to the nearest hotel to get a nice bathroom, coffee, wifi, etc.
– The rain stopped at about noon, and I took off to NYC. I knew it would start raining again.
– It did, also the traffic on the road was a bit hard because of the last day of a Memorial Day long weekend. So when I saw a railway station after Greenwich, I jumped in towards Grand Central of NY
– Late afternoon, under the rain, wasn’t the best time for cycling out of NY, so I took a train to Metuchen, NJ, where the long green line of the trail started again and went along the river.

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– Pretty Metuchen changed with New Brunswick, where the trail turned into the narrow path in the industrial area, with broken glass and graffiti, then just ended with a fence with no sign. On the map, it still looked like a nice trail.Photo
– I followed the regular road, trying to keep South till the first place with wi-fi and electric sockets, found myself at the greek cafe in Franklin, and arranged with the owner that I could hang my hammock under their gazebo at the backyard.
– Barbara, my trail angel, reached Robert from East Coast Greenway Alliance, and he came to fetch me!

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– Had a wonderful sleep in an antic stylish house and learned about sewing craft from Carolyn.
– Going to spend a day in the library, as they finally are going to send me some .gpx files, so I could build an interactive map of East Coast Greenway Trail.

 
 
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From journalism and car racing in Russia to teaching at the University in South Africa, where she won Alliance de France and the British Consulate international photo contests, she switched paths: earned a silver medal at the 2011 World Masters Athletics USA, hiked the 2,081-mile Appalachian Trail, navigated the Amazon from Peru to Brazil, biked Route 66 from Chicago to LA, from London to Orkney, and from Canada to Key West, and launched an art project at Midcoast Maine. During lockdown drove to Olympic Valley Palisades Tahoe where became a ski and swim instructor, then… well, enough for now.