New York City Gas Lamps
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2004 – USA
NYC 2004 – City Hall Station #2
You may have read previously that I was quoted in the Columbia Uni Rag that I was surprised that the cell phone worked, or something similar. The reality of course is that this trainee journalist was demonstrating has ability to get the facts wrong attributed.
1) No Australian carries a cell phone – we have Mobile Phones
2) I certainly didn’t take mine on holiday.
I do appreciate that there is documentary evidence, from an independent source that I was indeed in City Hall station on the occassion of the Subway’s 100th Birthday.
Just look at my tie pin closely!!!
Dog at Peterborough Lift Lock
Peterborough lift lock is the tallest in the world, or so I remember. The fall colours were beautiful. This dog was below the lift lock and belonged to workers at the lock.
Ontatio had the most spectacular colours during our Fall trip.
Highway 1 – California
This photo shows how Highway 1 hugs much of the Californian coast.
The wonderful thing about the coast road is that throughout the day the environment is changing. In the morning there was lots of fog, as the day warmed up it burnt off. There was also plenty of sea mist.
These conditions provided for some pretty amazing perspectives.
20 years and counting…
This blog started more than twenty years ago with our 2004 trip to the United Stated and Canada. This holiday was a turning point in our lives – we came back knowing that we needed to get fitter. It was, in some ways, the true genesis of our riding life and ultimately our life and travels with Brompton Bikes.
As I looked back over our first blog, I recall what it was like trying to blog without an iPhone. We had to rush into local internet hotspots in libraries and such. The big issue was whether we could even get the photos off our camera to upload. There were plenty of promises to upload photos later. 20 years later, I have now uploaded the missing photos and corrected some spelling mistakes! If you are interested, you can revisit our 2004 holiday. See our 33-year-old selves by following this link > https://bromptoneering.blog/category/bromptoneering-or-bust/2004-usa/?order=asc
Since the first post about our itinerary in 2004, we posted 979 other posts (including this one) from all over the world. Our first trip had a total of 54 posts.
In 2025 and beyond we will continue with our travel blogging. We are, however, going to add some posts about riding in Adelaide both with and without Brompton Bikes. So if you have already subscribed to this blog you will receive all of the posts. If you would like to change that, visit the blog site. You can select the sort of posts you want to get.