I always do the loop just once in the summer and that's about it for the year. There is waaaaay to much city to explore than spending hours doing the same loop year after year. It would bore me to tears riding the same park the rest of my life.

Here's what I did today. Took the F train to the LAST STOP in Queens. I spent the rest of the afternoon heading back to city but stopping for lunch and pizza. I also did some Christmas shopping and rode right along with traffic.

There was loads of traffic and sometimes I walked for several blocks on the sidewalks that were also packed with people doing last minute Xmas shopping. Overall, it was a very nice afternoon and much more interesting than doing loops in the park.