It's Almost Summer Bike Ride VII

June 19, 2004


On June 19, 2004 we had an It's Almost Summer Bike Ride VII on the path along the D&R canal from Princeton to Blackwells Mills and back. On the way back, we stopped in Kingston and had lunch at Good Time Charley's.

The ride was a 24 mile round trip.

Along for the ride were Robin and Susan Dawson (Susan is the former business manager of the Physics department, and is now the manager of the Astrophysics Department, Robin works on imaging devices at the Sarnoff Labs), Scott and Marilyn Tremaine (Scott's the chair of the Astrophysics department and Marilyn's the chair of the computer science department at NJIT), physics graduate students Vincent Pelletier (Canada), Lu Li (China), and Sasha Solovyov (Ukraine), and me, Ed Groth.

The rest of the story is in the pictures below. Some of the picture are a little blurry since I took them while riding.

Click on a thumbnail for a larger picture.

Almost Summer Ride At the parking lot on Washington Road just east of Lake Carnegie: Sasha, Lu, Vincent, Marilyn, Susan, and Scott. We're almost ready to start. Almost Summer Ride A little north of Princeton, looking across Lake Carnegie to some of the nice houses next to the lake.
Almost Summer Ride On this part of the ride, Vincent was right behind me and Scott was behind him. Almost Summer Ride There were a lot of people enjoying the path today. Here's a couple of joggers and a couple of bikers (not part of our group).
Almost Summer Ride Now Vincent is ahead. The canal is on the right and the lake on the left. Almost Summer Ride Lu is just behind, Sasha is behind him and next in line seems to be Marilyn.
Almost Summer Ride Later on, I was at the end. Susan is just in front and Lu is in front of her. Almost Summer Ride We stopped for a short break at Griggstown. A horseback rider was taking her horse off. There was some evidence of the horse on the trail (another good reason for fenders!).
Almost Summer Ride Lu, Susan, Robin, and Sasha at Griggstown. Almost Summer Ride Marilyn and Scott at Griggstown.
Almost Summer Ride The farthest point of the ride was Blackwells Mills, about 12 miles from where we started. Here are Scott, Marilyn, Robin and Susan. They're looking across the road where a group on a canoe trip were finishing and someone fell in the canal trying to get out of the canoe. Don't worry, the water's not very deep! Almost Summer Ride At Blackwells Mills, Marilyn, Robin, Susan, Sasha, Lu, and Vincent.
Almost Summer Ride We rode 9 miles back to Kingston where we had lunch at Good Time Charley's. Here are Susan and Robin walking toward the entrance and Sasha, Vincent, and Lu locking up their bikes. Almost Summer Ride Scott and Marilyn make a bike rack out of the handicapped railing!
Almost Summer Ride Inside Charley's are Lu, Sasha, Marilyn, Robin, Susan, Scott and Vincent. After lunch, Robin and Susan rode back to Griggstown where they live (so they got about 38 miles on the day) and the rest of us returned to the parking lot on Washington Road (for 24 miles). Unfortunately, Sasha's freewheel broke - the gears turned forward without turning the wheel forward. He refused my offer to return with my van and give him a lift, so he had a 3 mile walk to get home!