This cider resembles wine in several ways.
I’m calling Professor’s Hard Cider a pop-up because it is only open for two weekends this year — this one and next weekend.
Continue reading “A short bike ride to a hard cider pop-up”A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what happens before that Amazon package lands on your door.
Did you know that Amazon offers free tours of some of its facilities?
Continue reading “My 10-mile bike ride to a free tour of the local Amazon warehouse”We stopped at Papa’s and Classico.
A pizza with a thin layer of brown mustard. A veggie pizza with cauliflower, peas, potatoes, paneer cheese and Indian spices. Another with mushrooms, honey and truffle oil.
New Jersey has lots of great independent pizza places, but we were on a quest for “weird” pizza (in the nicest way), a riff on my rides for “weird” beer. No sausage, pepperoni or green peppers this time.
Continue reading “Mustard? Cumin? 3 ‘weird’ pizzas on a 23-mile bike ride in New Jersey”Go on the free tour of this Hindu temple, or Mandir, in Central Jersey.
You need lots superlatives when describing this Hindu temple, or Mandir, in Central Jersey. Largest outside India is one.
Continue reading “I biked to a guided tour of the ginormous Hindu temple in Robbinsville, N.J.”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.
Continue reading “Discovering an elaborate marble-covered Hindu temple in central New Jersey”We took a free tour of our local Amazon warehouse (I mean fulfillment center).
We picked an unusual bike-ride destination this time: our nearby Amazon warehouse, er, I mean fulfillment center.
Ads for (free) Amazon tours have been popping up in my Twitter feed for a while, so when I saw one for a Saturday that worked for us, I pounced. (Pro tip for all my retired friends: weekday tour spots are much easier to get.)
Continue reading “A peek inside the high-tech world of an Amazon warehouse (by bike, of course)”
Exploring by bicycle 