Hot Biking

Looks like there's a bunch of pictures in the camera from our bike trips.

This is a fairly condescending sign, you think? Does it imply YOU do NOT "Heart" your children? Because they certainly do. Do you think they all had a meeting to make sure they all [heart] their children? Maybe some family was like "Well not really but you can still put up the sign if you want." At least they ask with a Please.

We found our way into a back entrance to this mall. It's not a very big mall, basically only a Barnes and Noble, and an expensive movie theatre. And lots of other ritzy boutique shoppes.

It feels weird being here on a bicycle. Where did I park the car? Oh it's at home. Normally that thought would be funny but it was so hot that day maybe it would have been nice to just go home at this point.

Riding a lap around the mall, there was a live band rocking the Bahama Breeze. The Caribbean steel drum music was pretty cool, mon.

There was a little side-path to get to the nearby shopping plaza with the Whole Foods over there. No vending machines anywhere in that shopping area. We also discovered a road behind these places that connected them, so that was cool. 

The back road ended at this park with a very tempting ice cream truck calling to us like a siren. Thankfully, I guess, the line was super long. And we might have melted before we actually got some ice cream.

Right in front of the park was the Princeton Country Club golf course. It was extra-hot that day and we would need to re-fill our beverage. It seems that vending machines are becoming extinct, there was none to be found anywhere around here either.

We parked the bike, at the relatively "safe" shop and ran in to the bar to grab another Gatorade. I would imagine the rich people around here would rather throw away our filthy bike rather than ride off on it.

In the brief time we were there, at least 2 caddies in carts "nicely" reminded us that we could not "ride the bike" around the golf course, and had to use the side trail. Ouch right in the self-esteem. Suddenly we feel like they don't want us here.

This is the bridge that connects back over to the D&R Canal trail. We know that way back, but it's nice to have been on the other side over here with the rich people for a moment.

That deer was a lot closer than this picture looks like it was. It was looking at us like it could use a friend, and was oddly comforting to think about having a new friend even if it was a deer. Now that we see this picture, I wonder how it's doing.

If you've seen the most recent season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. you might see this and get a laugh. They had a tech device where they painted red circles and then a portal opened up where it was.

Here was a neat tree stump throne discovered somewhere on a trail in the Princeton campus. I'm Queen of the Forest!