2010
prologue day1
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to the myth*
Day 2: Yonkers to White
Plains
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In the morning we ate at Eileen's
in Yonkers. I highly recommend this restaurant. We then loosely followed
the Bronx River corridor and cut across to the Hutchinson River path. There
were lots of nice folks in Mount Vernon who seemed to instinctively approve
of our quest. They might see us and just put their hand to their heart,
or smile and nod. One guy came out of his house loading a 4-wheeler onto
a trailer on the back of his car. He said it could go 90 miles an hour and
that he was taking it to church. I think he said that.
We crossed into Pelham, which is divided from Mount Vernon by a highway.
It seemed the highway made for a way to separate a wealthy from a not so
wealthy area. However there was a pedestrian bridge between the two which
felt like a nice flow of energy. Again, this segment cut through urban areas,
but we observed rail tracks, and riverbanks possible- hiding places for
a coyote. Additionally we walked down a street called "Wolf's lane"
in Pelham. At the Hutchinson
River Path it was golden in terms of being in clearly coyote navigable
territory.
  
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The path that follows the Hutch starts as quite scenic, but five or ten miles down the path you are walking within 15 feet of the highway. We got into a bit of a death march here because there wasn't any place nice to sit down and eat. Finally we just sat down on this big old tree that had blown over, across the trail. Seth, who teaches law at Cardozo when he's not doing the Lah walk, was teaching Jenni about the desire line. The tree had fallen across the trail; the desire line was the path that most people had taken to get around it. Later Seth introduced us to the concept of easement. We would cut through yards, and apparently if this happens enough and nothing is done about it (e.g. no fence put up), and if it's determined that the public needs a right to cross (e.g. to access a landlocked destination), the crossing can be declared an "easement" and be re-appropriated by governing powers for public use. Yes. We also saw a huge road sign that had blown over as a result of the same big storm that knocked over so many trees in Prospect Park.
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The path lead to the Saxon Woods golf
course where we examined an impeccably trimmed putting green and then to
Saxon Woods proper, probably the most naturally beautiful spot on the trek.
Waiting at the edge of Saxon woods was my friend Woody and his grandparents,
who live in that neighborhood. We had a reception befitting royalty. Our
hosts were so gracious we forgot to take pictures. Tents were assembled
in the backyard and we stayed up almost half an hour after our 9pm bedtime.
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