Today was our "day off" from babysitting Julia. We decided to head over to Manhattan and ride the Hudson River Greenway up to Dinosaur Bar-B-Que (one of our favorite restaurants in NYC). The weather was hot and humid, but we had a nice ride from the WTC PATH station up to 125th Street. Our son, Dan, was able to take a break from the bike shop and join us for lunch. Mark and Dan shared a rack of ribs. At Dinosaur, you get a choice of "sides" with your meal, and that's always the most difficult part of my lunch selection: They have about 15 sides from which to select; I've had about 10 of them over the years, and they're all good. Some of the choices (in addition to the standard cole slaw and french fries) are: barbeque baked beans, barbeque fried rice, carrot and raisin slaw, Syracuse salt potatoes, and macaroni and cheese. They also have a vegetable of the day - today it was black-eyed peas with kale.
After eating our hearty lunch, we headed next door to Fairway Foods, a fabulous grocery store in Harlem. Mark had the grocery-style saddle bags on his bike, so we stocked up on gluten-free items and other goodies (chocolate-covered pretzels for me), then headed back down the greenway. Of course, the wind had shifted so that we ended up with a head wind both directions! But it felt good to get out for a 20-mile ride.
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