Check out the standoff that I encountered below. I decided to take an extra ride along the Lake while Joanna waited at the Ferry. This herd of cattle went to take a drink in the Lake and on my ride back they had moved to the road. They would not let me through. My first stare-down for sure! I lost & had to walk around them.
Ok turnsheets--the British like to write paragraphs as directions. Now when you are biking it si very hard to read a paragraph & look where you are going. We never found our last big turnoff and ended up biking very much out of our way (Picturesque nonetheless)....But biking those hills again was not on our agenda-and our legs would ot be able to handle it. We called the venue, which we hired bikes from and they sent a very nice man who came to get us. And he played Madonna music all the way back :-) Check out some of my photos below. The camera could not come close to how beautiful this day was.
. Thank you Aunt Heidi & Uncle Steven! We began in downtown Manhattan and finished in Staten Island. Highlights included breezing down the FDR, meeting Jason & Ellen for lunch in Williamsburg, cool sprays of cold air along the water (while on the Belt Parkway), and climbing the 
