Five Boros Bike Tour, NYC

Damp yet cheerful siblings at a rest stop, foraging for bananas amongst the madding crowd. We also ate more cheesy snack crackers than any one human being ought.

Under a bridge somewhere. We went over, under, around and through many of them. The Verezano bridge was pretty cool, I think. It was a little too cloudy and I was having a little too much fun trying to go fast on the bike to really tell.

People. Sooooo many people. With soooo many bikes. Had to shut down my 'personal space' monitors and just embrace the masses. Although I will not ever get over hearing 7 year old with Long Islands accents.

Went to NYC for the 5 Boro Bike Tour - they close off 42 mi of New York streets for 30,0o0 bikers, and route you through all 5 boros, over bridges, through parks, and onto the Staten Island ferry. Awesome in concept, and pretty cool in reality. Some logistics issues, some 'people are morons' issues (like screaming "LEFT!" and cutting across 12 bikes worth to get to the other side of street, or getting off your bike and walking it because there is a 15 foot 2 degree incline), and some pouring rain/hypothermia issues. But it was a great adventure, and pretty cool to be seeing the city from that perspective.
A friend loaned me his old cyclocross bike, which he is trying to sell me. Smartest thing to do if you want someone to buy your bike - I fell in love with that thing. It outclasses me in all ways, and makes me feel like a poser, but man I feel like a FAST poser. And I felt super slick slinging it over turnstiles in the subway. Never knew what a difference a bike could make. Now my beloved Kaitai feels like a tank, and I think I have to buy the cyclocross bike, even though I am unlikely to ever use it as intended.

Brett - who got me into this ride in the first place and is using Jedi mind tricks to get me to buy his bike. It's working.