Blue Bears hires adults with intellectual or physical disabilities.
Have you discovered Blue Bears in the Princeton Shopping Center?
Continue reading “I biked to a special French cafe in Princeton that hires those with disabilities”Both have great sections — and messy parts too.
I shocked a few of my neighbors when I said I was biking to Philadelphia this past weekend. It takes an hour to drive using I-95 so it seems crazy far to bike … and besides, how would you go?
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First day of spring, warm and sunny … do you need a better reason for a bike ride?
Our goal was the eagles’ nest in Mercer County Park — a park three times the size of Central Park in New York City — and to hopefully see some of the many (40?!?) eagles reportedly spotted on our first blast of spring 10 days earlier. Yes, bald eagles live in New Jersey!
Continue reading “An easy bike ride to see eagles in Mercer County Park”It was 60 degrees in January. We had to go for a bike ride.
When it tops 60 degrees in January, how do you not go for a bike ride? And so we did, riding a loop of nearly 20 miles with the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville as our midway destination.
A mandir is a Hindu temple, and this one is immense — I would call it the equivalent of a cathedral. It’s been open for about 5 1/2 years and is part of a five-building complex still under construction. Like a cathedral, you can come in for services, pray on your own or just gawk at marble carvings.
UPDATE: The temple is now finished.
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Exploring by bicycle 