Biker Control – More Give and Take in Port Jefferson
I love spending time in the Town of Port Jefferson. I also love being a motorcyclist. It seems that these two interests are at odds with one another at times. The town, in an...
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I love spending time in the Town of Port Jefferson. I also love being a motorcyclist. It seems that these two interests are at odds with one another at times. The town, in an...
On the Long Island north shore’s far eastern end is the town of Orient. From there you can catch a ferry to New London, Connecticut. Or – exit the ferry from New London as...
Around Long Island, I don’t recall seeing Motorcycle Parking Only signs anywhere beside the lot in town of Port Jefferson. Is designated motorcycle parking common where you live?
Long Island’s north shore has some lovely little towns tucked into the coves along the Sound shoreline. This is where you can find some sense of “small town” feel that is increasingly absent in...
Everyone that has ever passed through Long Island’s easternmost town of Montauk seems to know of the Memory Motel. The name is also special to many Rolling Stones fans. In 1975, while staying in...
No pretense, no fuss. Just a small general store with a screen door, good food and an appreciation for it’s own history. The store stands sweetly just being itself itself and watching the passage...
This pretty much sums up my Sunday: Here on Long Island it was a sunny, nearly spring day. Though the winds were blowing all day, the temperatures danced around the 50 degree mark. I...
It is impossible for me not to stop whenever I pass the Big Duck. I just love it.
I think I spend more time at the beach during the winter than I do during the summer. It was mornings like today, that remind me why it’s so great to live near the...
After spending last Saturday night doing the Crotona Midnight Run on the giant behemoth that is the GS, the DRZ felt positively toy-like. Everything on my little black Suzuki just felt so… easy. From...
On Sunday morning I woke up to sunshine. As I padded down he hall towards the coffee pot, I got that feeling. You know… that special feeling. The one that says maybe you’ll be...
When the first snow of this winter fell, Kenny went out to see what it felt like to ride in it. Being that neither of our DRZs have studs in their tires, it was...
I’m always walking around with my iPhone in my pocket. Truth be told, one of the only reasons I got the iPhone was for it’s camera apps. I couldn’t care less about actually talking...
The Stony Brook Village Center works very hard at keeping a small town, community feel alive. During the winter season they hold an event called the Promenade of Trees where the walkway is lined...
Sunday was cool but sunny. I didn’t stray very far on the bike. Kenny and I monkeyed around on the DRZs for a few minutes but I wasn’t feeling social and went off to...
It’s that time of year again; the dark months. The chill of winter is muscling it’s way in to everyday life and we’re biding our time until the days start getting longer again. It...
Have a look around at Billy Joel’s newly opened motorcycle hang – 20th Century Cycles in Oyster Bay.
Kings Park Psychiatric Center finally closed it’s doors in 1996. Since that time, the hospital grounds have stood largely abandoned, vandalized and partly re-purposed into a park. The remaining buildings are often illegally entered...
Aside from riding around in a Gumby suit, I was busy nerding it up in other ways on Sunday. I was messing around with Foursquare trying to see if I could unlock the Great...