My pad to cental park

Weather was almost SF like Sunday, 68 degrees so i decided to go for good spin to da park.
I took the route i usually take so far to get to williamsburg bridge. Here is one of my favorite streets to ride down, Usually it's pretty shady with the trees.




Here's the start of the williamsburg bridge, a statue with "Valley forge" written on it.



Ive been accross williamsburg bridge a few times now, but have not ventured into manhattan on bike yet. It's a great bridge to ride accross two seperate 2lane bike /pedestrian lanes, they are suspended high above the bridge so it's a little bit of a hill on single speed getting up there.








Took me a while to find the best streets according to the NYC bike map to ride.
I went up 8th ave mostly, since i dont go to west side that much.
Besides a few aggressive cabbies, it's not bad at all riding, feels very natural if you've done a lot of city riding. Drivers are very aware of bikes since there are quite a few of em in NY.

got to central park it was pretty crowded since it was sunday morning, lots of people doing a bit of everything, horse rides too.






I was surprised how fun it was just to ride the park loop, No need to stop, pretty good pace through the whole park and it even had a hill climb at the north end.
There were some very fast riders as well zoombing by me... I have a exceuse im outta shape and on a single speed!

took me 2 hrs 45 mins roundtrip. This was also me looking at the map, standing around like a goofball in the street etc...

Hmm, I bet i could commute to work in a hour or less

Gig Results

Our first gig was last night, It was a tuesday night so not much of a crowd. All in all it went pretty well.

45 minutes of improvised music. we played around with "sunshine of your love" by cream
but it went other places from there. Everyone was happy with the end result and we plan to get more gigs in the near future.

Here's a track

Firsttune

a pic of the in house rigs



Jon getting ready to Rock out

Prospect park

Checked out prospect park today, since it was a most excellent day to go fer a ride.
It's a neat park, Brooklyn's big public park, smaller then central park though. Streets were closed off so the lanes were all bikes or people jogging.

It's a good enough size to do laps around on yer bike, so if i need to get in a quick bike workout this will be the spot. People keep all traffic going in a counter clockwise direction so that's a good thing when you got your pace going

Xtreme weather

I got woken up twice this morning to really really loud thunder, and the lightning was going off like crazy about 5-6am.

The flooding was pretty bad, it shutdown almost every subway line. The two i take were unusable so it was either wait forever for a crowded bus or just turn around and wait it out a few hrs.
I got remote access to my comp from home so decided to do that.
Trains started running again at 11am, My co-workers say this is not normal for MTA to shutdown so many trains at once like this.

Really humid today too which had me sweating like a pig.

Jazz Teacher

One of my goals in coming out here was to find a great Jazz bass teacher to continue my studies.
I was going to Michael wilcox in the bay area who was great, but this is NYC home to a large amount of Jazz bass heads.

I found a teacher named Mike Frost who was highly reccomended by quite a few people, and traveled out to Lynbrook long island to meet up with him. Great guy and i am sure i will be picking up a lot from him. He actually studied under Jaco Pastorius at one time.

http://www.mcfrost.com/home.html

Gig

A gig already that was fast...
clicky

Burritos

I realized how much i missed mexican food after moving. There is of course lotsa good food in NYC but finally found a decent place called Taco chulo, i make a weekly trip there to stock up on some good eats