Binghamton NY to New York City – 1,659kms (313kms travelled today)

Aug 23, 2019

Was a much more comfortable temperature for riding today through some rugged hills and mountains and tried to find local roads to ride into New York with little success but overall managed to find a few. It would appear that the Interstate highways and freeways are funded and maintained by the Federal / State Governments and anything else is taken care of (or not) by the Counties and OMG when we pulled off to get a coffee at a quirky little spot we found holes between the road edge and servo where you could have buried a cow or two but we were not to be deterred because we were on our way to catch up with our grandson Ashley who is doing a PhD in Astro Physics at Columbia University and thankfully we made our way quite comfortably into NYC, found our hotel, checked in and deposited our bikes about a block away at a garage for the duration of our stay.

Once we freshened up Ashley came around and we had a brief tour of some of the Columbia Campus where he works and has been teaching which was great. We visited his apartment in a lovely Art Deco building (owned by the University) and then had a yummy dinner across the street from his apartment.