New York Renaissance Faire

^ Taken by the dude selling the hermit crabs ^

The rest are on my flickr

Saturday some friends and I went to check out the Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo New York. We dined on Turkey legs, Steak on a Steak, and Mead; did some archery and watched lots of interesting events.

It was my second time there and happened to be pirate weekend so I wore my pirate hat and sword and skull and cross bone earrings.

I didn't take as many photos as I would have liked to (I only brought one lens with me >_<).

Summer Streets 2010 - Week 2

Though we got off to bit of a late start, it was a great ride. Over all around 30 miles.

We started off at my garage and rode to Flushing Meadows Park, where we met up with the rest of our group, then took the 7 train to the city. First thing I learned was going up stairs with a bike is EVIL, going down is much easier, and I owe a HUGE thanks to Oliver and Christine who helped me up the stairs.

The weather was frickin' awesome (tho a lil chilly for swimming in the dumpster pools). I saw tons of dogs in baskets and trailers, I also saw a unicyclist (I wonder if he rode the whole route!?). Another oddity was the petty cab hauling the stripper pole with ladies dancing.

After they opened up the streets again, we made our way over to China town for food and some window shopping (J&L and Elizabeth street mall). We then rode up the East side green route where we were going to take the subway back but caught our second winds and rode back to flushing.

Summer Streets 2010

Today my body is a bit stiff, but I survived my first time ever riding to the city from Queens ^.^

Summer Streets was pretty fun, next week I really want to try out the dumpster pool and go both uptown to down and then down to up. Oh and take more pictures.

Over all it was about a 36 mile ride (not counting the brief ride on the 7 train back to Queens :P).

What I've been up to:

Other than job hunting, I've been bit by the biking bug.

After completing my first "Tour de Queens" I bought a new bike and have been a cycling demon. I love the freedom and the money I'm saving not having to spend on the bus.

The other day I discovered a site called "Map My Ride", that lets me log my ride (it's frick'n awesome) I wish I had a iPhone so I could hook it up with the GPS and have it map automaticly.

Today I rode about 11 miles:


This Saturday starts off "Summer Streets". I have walked it a few times but this will be the first time I've ridden it (and ridden to the city).