Bicycle Film Festival NYC!!
Bruce meets us downtown for this yearly event. Saturday includes 30+ films (short & long, docu & fiction, US & intl) that have a bicycle theme.

Before all the films are finished, Ron and Bruce get antsy and jump on their bikes. It is a beautiful day.

Smorgasburg in Williamsburg Brooklyn.. a “flea food market.”

A delicious mulberry tree on Flushing Ave in Brooklyn. Yum.
Helpful hint: you can easily spot mulberries when the sidewalk and road are stained purple.

It’s feels good to be on an adventure ride.

Red Alert.
Despite all the smiles and fun biking, Bruce confides he’s got chest pains and numbness in both arms.

Luckily, Bruce agrees to see a doctor, who tells him that his main artery has a 100% blockage, also known as the widow maker. But because of all his bicycling his body created new paths to work around the blockage, and that basically biking saved his life. The doctor fixed the problem with surgery and Bruce is on the road to recovery. Thank goodness!!

We play a game called Tourists In Our Own City. Here I am heading into Queens.

A little selfie pano action on the beach at the Brooklyn East River waterfront, looking out towards midtown Manhattan.

The architecture of bridges always seems so photogenic to me.
This is Ron on the Williamsburg Bridge.

We haven’t been to Mon Petite Cafe in a while..

It’s even better than we remember.. wonderful French food and thoughtful service.

Ron’s a good leader.. and I view him from the back a lot. “Wait up so we can take a picture together!”

Ahhh.. Manhattan on a warm, sunny day : )

Hey! The Freedom Tower photobombed the Washington Square arch!

Watching the skill and the drama at West 4th Street courts. (“It wasn’t a foul.. he said to ‘Bring It!'”)

This was perhaps our farewell bike ride with Derek before he heads off to Boston. Next ride, Beantown.

Celebratory party at Tavern on the Green for four surgeons who graduated from their residency programs. Hoo-yah!