We are sitting in Starbucks in the swanky Hamptons, borrowing free internet after a wonderful lunch at the Golden Pear Cafe where we (well Chris did) literally brushed elbows with a tv star! Mark Feuerstein of Hank Med fame from the USA show "Royal Pains" was enjoying his lunch at the next table, pretty cool.
We have been bike riding fools around the forks of Long Island. We took the ferry from Shelter Island up to Greenport and rode all the way to Orient Point, through vineyard country. Shelter Island was very quaint and we enjoyed the services of the Marina there while hanging with the TOMKAT crew for a few days. Incidently, that is the same marina where they build the boats associated with Billy Joel, the "Downeaster" boats. We parted ways with TOMKAT and headed for Three Mile Harbor, beautiful and surprisingly quiet. The water is warm and clean, we spent a day doing boat projects then took advantage of a rainy day to catch a movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild". Decent movie, not what we expected, but the popular movies were sold out, seems like going to the movies is the only thing to do in the Hamptons when it rains!
Today we are off on another bicycle tour of the mansions of the Hamptons and exploring the beaches and towns of the south fork. Check out the videos section of the blog for a short movie on how the bikes help us get around! Tomorrow looks like more rain, so we'll hang out at the boat, perhaps try to see another movie. We are closely watching the weather, looking for the best window to make our offshore trip down to Cape May, NJ. This post closes out the New England phase of our journey, in a few days we'll be making some serious southward progress. Look for pictures when we get to NJ and have a solid internet connection!
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