{"id":1079,"date":"2012-09-13T20:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2012-09-13T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T20:16:42","slug":"ready-set-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Ready, Set, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 3, Sept. 13: \u00a0City Island to Sandy Hook<\/p>\n

This morning we played our own version of a \u201cTop Gear\u201d race.\u00a0 We left City Island by boat, under power, and our younger son left his apartment on West 112th<\/sup> St. (the block that has Seinfeld\u2019s \u201cTom\u2019s Restaurant\u201d at one end and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at the other) for a race to the bend in the East River<\/a>\u00a0(#7), near \u00a0Roosevelt Island across from Gracie Mansion.\u00a0 I think we (on the boat) even got a bit of a head start, but our son the biker beat us on this leg of the race!<\/p>\n

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After photos and a lot of exuberant waving (and happy tears on my part) we began the second leg of the race: the Upper East Side to the Battery<\/a>\u00a0(#8).<\/p>\n

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In Chris\u2019s case this meant dodging a lot of traffic on 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> Avenues.\u00a0 We, on the other hand, were just sluicing down the East River at half throttle, with a favorable current pushing us and luckily no other traffic!\u00a0 We won this leg by several minutes.\u00a0 Chris had some bad information on the quickest route downtown, so he was terribly disappointed to miss getting a shot of us going under the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Given Chris’s struggle with morning traffic coming down the East Side, it was impressive that we only beat him to Battery Park by about 10 minutes. \u00a0That boy can ride!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I had quite a moment of panic when Chris jumped over the railing in Battery Park to get a photo of us.\u00a0 The folks nearby asked if he was planning to swim out to us….<\/p>\n

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I thought this was an interesting juxtaposition, the Verrazano Bridge and the colonial fort near the base. \u00a0And that brings me to the similar clash of cultures I felt as we went through New York today. \u00a0We were on our very small vessel, not a lot different than a floating gypsy caravan, with all our power in our little world generated by four solar panels that sit atop our bimini at the back of our cockpit. \u00a0Meanwhile, we were motoring through one of the largest cities in the world, the city I have lived nearest for over 40 years now. \u00a0It’s vastness was almost as great as the ocean to me….and I felt pretty tiny on board Pandora<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We anchored inside Sandy Hook<\/a>\u00a0(#10), New Jersey, in time for lunch. \u00a0The excitement of the morning had thoroughly worn me out! \u00a0So it seemed appropriate for some quiet time with my current book and then a nap. \u00a0At this point, it’s almost opening time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 3, Sept. 13: \u00a0City Island to Sandy Hook This morning we played our own version of a \u201cTop Gear\u201d race.\u00a0 We left City Island by boat, under power, and our younger son left his apartment on West 112th St. (the block that has Seinfeld\u2019s \u201cTom\u2019s Restaurant\u201d at one end and the Cathedral of St. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}