The Coffee Shop Bristol is a suburban town about 20 miles outside of Hartford, CT. Home of the studios for ESPN and the oldest continuously operating theme park. It was once a major clock-making center, and the American Clock & Watch Museum is in the town. Gary Burghoff, the actor best known for the role…
The Ride A brisk November Sunday morning greeted me as I prepared to depart for Perkatory Coffee Roasters in Branford, CT. With the temperature hovering right at freezing as I climbed aboard the BMW R1200GSA, I was glad to have wind protection and plenty of capacity for heated gear. I plugged the address for Perkatory…
The Ride Today’s coffee ride would be relatively short as we’d stay in Westchester County. Plugging in the address for Don Carvajal in Irvington, NY, to the Beeline Moto showed just 20.9 miles as the crow flies. I was aboard the BMW S1000R for today’s ride. While that bike is usually happy running at high…
The Ride This has been one of the snowiest winters in many years here, so it had been a couple of months since I could last ride. But some warmer temps combined with rain helped clear the last bit of ice and snow on the roads, along with the salt, so I was eager to…