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Cycle trip to Albert Einstein's house, April 1 - 4, 2002. |
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| This, my first multi - day cycletour, was from Rutherford to Princeton. The idea of this trip was to visit Albert Einstein's house, while shaking things out for a future ride to Washington D.C., and this 130 mile round trip proved very good for that.
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Albert Einstein's house, 112 Mercer Street, from the front. He lived here from 1933 until his death in 1955, while teaching at Princeton University, (just 1/2 block away). While I was there some tourists from England came by; Einstein was something of a hero to them.
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From this rear view of the house, you can see that the current owners are doing some (unfortunate) renovations. I hope they don't change it much, though I guess it's their house to modify...
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| An interesting epitaph... There's a historic graveyard in town which gets so many "tourist visitors" that there is a box of free guide maps at the entrance, showing the locations of famous people buried there. The map gives a short snippet of the people's lives; there's quite a bit of American history here.
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An interesting bridge, near the canal path.
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A large hole in the bridge. It's a good thing I wasn't distracted by the view.
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I broke some spokes on the way home. Though the rear wheel and spokes were a cheap chromed/ stamped steel type, nowadays I carry a spoke wrench on all multi - day rides because of this particular incident.
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A good view of the wheel after the spokes broke. The night before the return trip, a quick maintenance check revealed that the rear wheel was slightly out of round, (egg shaped), and since I didn't have a spoke wrench, all I could do was hope that I'd make it back without incident. In retrospect, a quick stop at a bike shop before heading home would have made all the difference...
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