Moon Island attempt

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Today I thought I would try to go to the south side of the Boston Harbor. I saw on the map Moon Island, connected to Squantum, and then in turn connected to Long Island. I rode through some not-so-bike-friendly roads, including a bridge under construction (Neponset Ave, connecting Dorchester and North Quincy), which had extremely narrow lanes that made me go real fast to avoid having cars try to pass me.

There is a nice stretch of road on East Squantum Rd. where you get a good view of downtown Boston, and Logan airport beyond it. The view is not as nice as the view I got last weekend in Winthrop. but it is still quite nice.

As I got close to Moon Island I got another flat tire - again the rear wheel. I popped off the tire and found that the leak was actually right at the base of the valve stem - very strange as this was a new tube. Anyhow, it was not patchable but I had a spare tube and was able to fix it. I then rode on another 1/4 mile just to find out that Moon Island and Long Island are off-limits. As it turns out the island is owned by the City of Boston and is use as the Police Department firing range and a Fire Department training facility.

On the way back I had to hurry home so I took a fairly direct route, up Neponset Ave to Dorchester Ave, Southampton and then Mass Ave. In all, a shorter ride than I wanted to do, but not bad.