Slang Editorial :: Never Underestimate The Value Of A Holla'

Sunday, July 05, 2009
Countryside Rolling

The resting place of an old Metro North train

I have been enjoying my time upstate for sure--I haven't done much, but it's all been terrifically relaxing. I have 1) spent time with family, 2) shot many rolls of film), and 3) taken a nice bike ride.

The exciting development with Two is that a number of rolls were shot on my step dad's early 80s Nikon FM2n camera, a beautiful and hardy mechanical SLR that not only adds depth to my film options--the only lens I have for the Pentax K1000 is a 50mm F/2 prime and his FM2n has a 28-70mm F/2.8-4 and a rad 105 mm micro F/2.8--but also to my digital, as both of his lens work on my digital Nikon thanks to Nikon's slavish obsession with keeping their longtime fans happy. He is lending it to me for a while and I'm looking forward to continuing my recent film experimentations.

The last of these items, the bike ride, was naturally the highlight of the weekend. I did the ride yesterday afternoon and it was a pleasant 31 miler that involved a number of stops to shoot upstate oddities with the K1000. Though, of course, pleasant is a funny way to describe it given that it felt more like 50 New York miles--the terrain here at the foot of the Catskills is all small mountains and rolling hills and definitely tired me out a lot more than many 50-65 mile NYC rides would. As you can see from the map below, the first half of my journey--14 miles or so--was very hilly, including starting the ride going up the rest of my hill (yes it goes even higher than where my house stands). Overall though, the ride was great and the weather was nice and I had a great time.

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Now we just had homemade breakfast of blueberry pancakes and bacon and I'm about to head to the links to play golf with my dad before heading home. I'm happiest of all to know that I'm already ready to look forward to the next time I get a chance to come up here too.

Labels: biking, exercise, maps, memories, old flames, photography

posted by Nihilist Loves Hate, Hates Everything at 7/05/2009 09:10:00 AM 0 comments

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