Ride #BIYF017 (rode the back roads)
11:27:14 (sexytime)
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Ride #BIYF016 (rode home )
1:31:01
Https://www.strava.com/activities/873012690
The Croton bridge (abandoned) in Fallsburgh,NY
Short story;
A week after I got sick from influenza doctor give me antibiotics to fix my sickness and it works pronto,I have been itching to ride again in backroads of upstate New York wich I have in mind when I was sick,I draw the shortened route from Google maps on piece of paper all 6 pages combined this is basically what I did pre-smart phone or Google maps Apps invented.
So,..on sunday morning right around 3ish morning with temperatures in the 48 degrees I embarking on long day bike riding excursion just me and my plastic fancy rig,rode thru paterson downtown I saw group of young folks partying by the sidewalk next to the blaring sound from their car speaker,and few homeless sleeping by city bench another group of party goer also spotted few block down after passing the chaotic downtown scene i'm now at the next neighboring town,Haledon that is
The scene here a little contrast compare to paterson then I quickly pick up on my old main route to get onto next town by riding on Franklin turnpike towards oakland no worries about cars because there's none at that hours but black and pitch darkness accompanied me instead.
Now,i'm in outskirts of Oakland town before reaching I-278 flyover continued riding on ringwood ave for an hours before I reached west milford there I stop by at Dunkin Donut to get a cup of joe and a Boston kreme,finish shoving the food down my throat the hop on my fancy plastic rig continue on Warwick turpike headed towards wawayanda SP,at the top of climb of upper greenwood lake where Utopia deli & cafe in on the left I turn sharp right onto N lake shore Dr follow that for several miles passing thru this nice private community by the lake I finally made it crooning into New York border.
The road name now turn to Brady Rd with a strong stench of manure I can tell i'm now in a different world,house farm and broad views of land immediately greet me with open arm or stench of all kind of animal shit..
Moving pass the Brady farmland i'm now at the bottom of Brady Rd make a left onto Route NY94 rode for few thousand feet then turn right onto CR 1 or Pine Island Turnpike I follow it all the way up for about 20 miles before connected with US 6.
On US 6 now,.follow a long 4 miles descend into the outskirts of Port Jervis where US 6 intersection with Route 23.
Another stop to diner now,..
Found a diner in town then ordered a plate of 3 big stack of Pancakes I only manage to eat 2 out of 3 it was too big for my asian belly..should've inform customer how big the portion is if I were a waiter,any way after eating that pancakes stepping out from diner I felt a bit chill I need another layer of shirt or something,at an nearby gas station I bought a T-shirt and wear it as another layer and then stuffed a newspa per underneath as windbreaker,then continued on towards Hawk Nest
Climbing from Port Jervis downtown towards HawkNest is about 2 miles
It is very nice roads and view wasn't bad either,once I get to top of hawk nest stop briefly then continue cresting down to my next route,the county road 31 is my next step,now i'm on it and follow it briefly for about 4 miles before veered right onto Rio Dam road where there's an Actual Dam located it is a small scale of Dam for port jervis residential consumption,moving on i'm still following the back roads around the Reservoir these back roads is my route to stay away from highway 42 it is almost parallelwith highway but eventually it will take me back on route 42 again so,for now it is the best way and safer way.
After riding few hours on back roads i'm now re-connected again with Route 42 and rode on it before reaching Monticello
Just 1 miles before headed into town of Monticello right behind Mr.willy's restaurant next to PowerLine there's a huge gathering of ATV'ers couple hundreds of them for a Charity ride cars with flatbed was parked on either side of Route 42 just a miles before into Monticello they do this ride every year
From Monticello I didn't making stop
So,..then I continued riding towards a small rural town called Fallsburgh from here I then moving on y o next bigger town,Ellenville
Ellenville is huge and beautiful surrounded by big mountain and many different big state park around that town there's the Rosa gap and shawangunk ridge state forest,cragsmoor and then Lundy and then the big one is Minnewaska SP
Meanwhile,..
From Ellenville I then followed closely by its shawangunk ridge foot hill where there's a road called Berme Rd this road was built just to go around those giant shawangunk ridge from town of Ellenville to Napanoch,Kerhonkson,Accord,then high falls all the way to Rosendale
While I didn't follow it to Rosendale like I was planing to,instead i took it until I reached town of Alligervile from here I then follow county road 6 towards Mohonk Rd wich is a long and steady climbing over mountain into New palzt
It's a long climbing then followed by long descend into outskirts of New palzt
Arrived in New Paltz then looking for foods,finished my foods then headed to Poughkeepsie train station,arrived at 6:08pm aboard train by 6:58pm then arrived at spuyten duyvel by 8:34pm and finally home by 10:20pm
Thank you for reading all thru this,I appreciated your patience with my messed up english!
