When I was
in New York this past August, I spent a hot and muggy Sunday afternoon with
Jean wandering around the Lyndhurst estate, something we hadn’t done in years;
we were the only ones there and had the place to ourselves. As we walked down
the hill in the back of the huge main house toward the Hudson River and walked
along the path on the way to what used to be the caretaker’s old house, we
discovered a path along the river that we followed for a while. It wound its
way along the river, to the south toward Irvington and to the north toward
Tarrytown. I’ve written about this walking and biking path, called the River
Walk, briefly in another post, but just thought I’d include more information
about it in this post. You can get an idea of how long the River Walk is when
you look at this map: http://planning.westchestergov.com/images/stories/RiverWalk/riverwalkmap11x17.pdf
And for
more information on how it came to be and when it will be completely finished,
you can go to the following link: http://planning.westchestergov.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1187&Itemid=2128
I am so
looking forward to biking the entire distance of the River Walk on a future
trip to New York. Jean and I have briefly discussed it and agreed that it would
be fun to take a picnic lunch with us and just be able to stop along the river
when we wanted to. It’s funny, but perhaps not so odd, that now that I live
outside of the USA, that I am learning more about both my country and New York
where I grew up for each year that passes. Just as many things have changed in
Norwegian society during the past twenty years, the same is also true of New
York and Westchester County. I need only think of the subway system in
Manhattan; how clean and spruced-up it is now compared to when I was a graduate
student at New York University thirty years ago. I’m glad to see that things
change for the better; the same is true for Times Square in Manhattan. I enjoy
being a tourist in the state of my birth and look forward to more explorative
trips in the years to come.
