{"id":1271,"date":"2011-08-03T22:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2011-08-03T22:49:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:49:55","slug":"sodas-and-waterfowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/sodas-and-waterfowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodas and Waterfowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first weekend in June I went on a bike trip up to Turner’s Falls and Greenfield.\u00a0 I headed up through Amherst, Leverett, and past Montague Center to get to Turner’s Falls (where I had been on a previous ride<\/a>), and once I got there, I rode the full length of the bike path that follows the Connecticut River.\u00a0 That path runs for a while along a canal, but then the canal rejoins the river to the West of downtown.\u00a0 While next to the river proper, I saw several ducks sitting on logs in the water, and I also saw this bird:<\/p>\n

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Which, from some Google searching, appears to be a cormorant.<\/p>\n

The path eventually leaves the river for a bit, then crosses it, as the river turns South.\u00a0 The path ends soon after, in the Northern part of Deerfield.\u00a0 From there, I rode across the Deerfield River into Greenfield, and went downtown to The People’s Pint<\/a> for lunch.\u00a0 I had never been there before, but had recently heard about the sodas that they brew themselves.\u00a0 I tried both the root beer and the ginger ale, and while the former was good, the latter was amazing!\u00a0 It’s fairly gingery, but also has a citrus base to it.\u00a0 Highly recommended.\u00a0 Unfortunately, while the brewery bottles a number of its beers for sale in area stores, the sodas are only available there at the pub.<\/p>\n

Once I left there, I headed home by a different route than I’d taken on the way up.\u00a0 I rode down through Deerfield, Whately, and Hatfield into Northampton, and then back across the Connecticut to Hadley.\u00a0 This ride was part of an effort to extend the distance I can ride – the total length was about 53 miles.\u00a0 More on my riding plans for this year in an upcoming post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first weekend in June I went on a bike trip up to Turner’s Falls and Greenfield.\u00a0 I headed up through Amherst, Leverett, and past Montague Center to get to Turner’s Falls (where I had been on a previous ride), and once I got there, I rode the full length of the bike path that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}