Tori and I decided to make it further north with our smarts rather than just a longer day. We're a couple blocks north of Grand Central Station, so out the back of our hotel then into the station was easy as pie. Information gave us mostly the info we needed, so we bought tickets on the Hudson line north (offpeak, $8.25 each) plus bike passes ($5 each) and went to the platform 18 as information mentioned. Apparently that wasn't right and we should have checked updated screens, but regardless we got on the next one 40 minutes later. We rode to Tarrytown, which is foretold as very cute by my cousin, and is opposite side of the river from Piermont where we coffee'd yesterday. One way should save us 50k, we'll see if we ride back or train back - need to train back with bike during off peak, and since we missed that first one, are working with a little less time. Since we're going opposite of the worker bee flow, not sure the off peak matters as much, but I don't need to debate that with the ticket counter.
As it turns out, the bridge from Tarrytown to Nyack doesn't allow bikes to cross. We rode near the bridge, noticed this, then saw the sherrif station right adjacent. I went inside and asked for advice. Bear Mountain bridge is north, but he said roads were busy on this side. Getting back on the train to ride further north would work, but was a 40 minute wait most likely. The trooper then said he'd call the bridge maintenance guy who was his friend and see if he'd give us a ride across in a truck. Sweet!
We got GMC chauffeured across, then rode on 9W past Nyack up towards bear mountain. Stopped for lunch at Titanic Sandwiches (which were surprisingly large) whilst overhearing a few gents discuss the most recent "network marketing" pyramid scheme they were working on, some herbal diet scheme.
The ride back was beauty, we cruised in steady but not blazing to nurse my IT band and Tori's cold.
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