>>>Spoken like a true Long Islander, *****ing about the hills !<<<<

Ay! I turned fifty this year. I've paid my dues with the damned hills and I've got nothing left to prove to anybody! Just give me a long stretch of flat to rolling pavement and I'll sit in the saddle for 10-15 hours!

I was actually thinking about breaking up the ride up and back into two days the next time I did it. Head up to Brewster, stay in a hotel, explore the area as if I'm hundreds of miles from home, then head back the next day. But if it really is mostly flat or downhill heading north to south, perhaps my wife would be able to ride it with me. I'll see. I'm a big freakin' talker sometimes.