^^Yup, that's true. My total for the day was (according to my mileage computer) 128.5 miles. Left the house at 4:40 AM, got back at 8:50 PM. This involved a 1 1/2 hour train ride in to NYC, and the same to get back... the hardest part was getting on the bike again after the train ride home; that was a cold ride!

The only pictures I took were of this beaver dam near Yorktown, NY:



That was pretty funny. There's this little stream right by the bike path, which is a former railroad bed, now paved. The beavers had built their dam up a little higher than the level of the bike path, so the water ran around the dam and onto the path. So then they built a low extension of the dam (only a few inches high) upstream a considerable distance. And this incorporated a few sandbags. Them beavers is crafty critters.

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, but I rode cyclocross bike with modern steel frame and shmergo brifters. And frankly I'm not sure I was any faster, or any more comfortable, than I would have been on one of my 50+ year old machines. Then again, we did some pretty rough off road riding that I might have avoided otherwise....