Before and after! Now (after) we are on a city bus line.

I now walk  1/8 of a mile, prove that I am old and have an entertaining ride into the city.

All I need is to get a cigarette and have it ready after the eight minutes. My eight minute nicotine fit will entertain other riders.

Back to the bus ride. With no traffic concerns and no parking issue I can be sitting in Marcy's Diner in twenty minutes. Today I also got onto my boat and was further treated to an enjoyable and polite human circus. An early summer mass journey to a city island was a joint destination for a few hundred humans.

Full disclosure, it was only an out and back destination for me and for a German lady and her son.  On the return ride we had the pick of four viewing perches!