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.

 
 

Lena Faber used to work as a journalist at a mainstream Russian newspaper, wrote books for a major publishing house, and directed her original concept on TV. In 2009, she moved to South Africa, taught at the university, took up running, and earned a silver medal at the World Masters Athletic Championship in California and, in the meantime, won an international photo contest with following up solo exhibition. In 2014 she "shut the door" and gone hiking the Appalachian Trail, cycling from Chicago to LA (US Route 66), from Maine to Florida, from London to Orkney, etc. Now in MidCoast, Maine.