Originally Posted by rholland1951

DBrim, Bishbike, funny you should mention Lynn Shore Drive and Nahant. That's just where I rode yesterday, 42 miles through Arlington, Medford, Malden, Revere, Saugus, Lynn, and Nahant, consuming 4+ bottles of water as I went. The route was a mix of roads and trails, taking advantage of the Northern Strand Community Trail through Malden and Saugus, along with a bit of single track in Revere, and the paths along the Lynn Shore Reservation and Nahant Beach Reservation. The ride was motivated by the weather forecast: the predicted high on the North Shore coastline was ~10 degrees cooler than it was in Arlington or points West. But to get there, I had to first plunge a little deeper into the urban heat island. As usual, time constraints played a role in route selection: the original theory of the ride involved Route 127 North of Marblehead, but an emergent chore--cleaning up after a catastrophic spill of a half gallon of laundry detergent in the trunk of my car--kept me busy until after 2, so a ride to Nahant became Plan B.

rod