Sunday and Monday were unseasonably mild and warm, so I got to ride both days. On Sunday I did my “encompass a lot of my favorite things into one ride” ride – AKA the “ride 35 miles for a snack in NJ”. 
You wind through Williamsburg and then up into Greenpoint. I follow the bike signs and turn onto to Eagle Street to get on to the Pulaski Bridge. Eagle Street always reminds me of my childhood as that was the name of our town’s roughest street – if we were to believe what our teachers told us. That one street that always seemed to have a lot of people loitering on it at all hours. Now I am sure it’s all co-op groceries and smoothie shops. Also, on this Eagle Street is a family that is always out unloading tremendous bags of aluminum cans from their van. Say hi to them (um, not really (although I am sure they are nice)). 
So, now you have to make it up to the 59th Street Bridge which is fine, except the way I go takes you by the Tom Cat bakery, which will just kill you if you are hungry as it is two blocks of baked bread smells. 
