Conveyor Bob and I opted out of the DTBDRHH and instead rode the not-yet-ready Edison Greenway. Starting where the Greenway will cross over U.S. Route 1 behind the A&P in Tano Mall (photo above), we followed the old Lehigh Valley Railroad -- "route of the black diamond" -- grade and service road for about 7 miles. Mud, sometimes colored blue and orange (superfund, baby), big puddles, old factories & warehouses and a forest. Yes, kids, a forest in Edison. This is the area surrounding the Dismal Swamp, and the Triple C Ranch -- that freaked us out. WTF is this farm doing here? Goats, horses, chickens -- right in the middle of the 4th largest city in New Jersey!
The LVRR's Perth Amboy branch had a stop in Metuchen, then continued on to South Plainfield. Very cool trail, which will continue south toward the Woodbridge Center Mall. We returned to Metuchen via blacktop, passing by the Metuchen Golf & Country Club. Fuck golf.
New Jersey if full of irony. Concrete and dirt. Trucks and bicycles. Band-Aids and Tomatoes.
This is, after all, the Garden State.
Had a Blue Moon afterwards. That's when I realized it was a good thing to opt out of the big event. I can't ride buzzed.
