UPDATE:: There is a very real possibility that the ride will be canceled due to health concerns, wind, and afternoon rain increasing throughout the evening. The concert on the green will be canceled (which immediately doesn't please one of the leaders) and the ride home from GC will be wet (and who wants to schlepp their bikes up and down the subway stairs?). Check back around 10PM.

Our Third Annual Get-Together along Connecticut's northern shores. Meet up at GCT for the 7:07 am New Haven train and breakfast at 9AM at Claire's Cornercopia Restaurant, a vegetarian, kosher, sustainable eatery in downtown New Haven. Wheels down at 10am when we roll out to Thimble Islands and a shipboard tour of a majestic grotto of coastal beauty unmatched anywhere along the Eastern seaboard. Along the way, we ride a defunct trolley rail trail (pictured above) and indulge in assorted coastal scenery. We should be back in the city by 7pm. Bring lots of $$ for train ($41.00; half off for seniors), breakfast, lunch, and cruise ($12). RSVP before 5pm Thursday, 6/25, so we can make accurate cruise reservations.

NOTE: Well, it looks like the New Haven Century, usually on the last Sunday in June, is not happening this year. So some of us will not be staying over in New Haven, and riding the New Haven Century the next day. But if you are still interested in overnight accommodations, you can contact the Hotel Duncan, for a room (203) 787-1273; $65 for a single; $85 double. That might make sense if you are attending the International Festival of Arts Ideas, which is just wrapping up a month-long series of events with a Saturday night free concert on the green. Scheduled is the Puerto Rican 12-piece ensemble Plena Libre, exploring Plena and Bomba pulse afro rhythms. So for some of us it'll be New Haven-style pizza, some locally brewed beers, and a free concert under the stars, with a late return to NYC.

Photo: Jonathan Barkey.