Connecticut and Colchester
After our adventures at Jim Thorpe, we left Pennsylvania for Connecticut via New York City. We crossed over the Hudson on the George Washington Bridge, a bridge I have crossed on my bike during the two "Escape NYC" rides I rode before Covid. Later in the day, we arrived at the Nelson Family Campground at a lovely spot next to their lake in East Hampton, CT. The next morning we rode the AirLine State park trail, with the first stop being at the Chandlers Ice Cream shop a short ways from our campground. Fortunately, we arrived before the store opened and were saved from an early energy rush. When we returned from our ride later in the day, they were open, and we enhanced our recovery from our ride. :>) At the start of our ride, a cranberry bog supported many lily pads at this time of year. Soon we are riding through the "Bishop's Cut," where the rocks were most difficult to cut during railroad installation being over 200 million years old, some of t...