George and Susan (more recently George and Rob) have been living up in North White Plains for 20 years or so, but only with the sale of Larchmont in late 2019 did it become the base of our operations when in Westchester. Then came COVID.
So we may be forgiven for having had a narrow understanding of what is around here. The Chinese place that Walter's family had considered the best place in Westchester was just a mile or so away, but then it closed down somewhere in there.
This trip, with the help of our friends at Google Maps, I've been discovering what is actually nearby, and there's lots of goodness. There are Korean restaurants, an H Mart, a good Chinese restaurant, a Columbian take out place (not great, but needed to be tried) and even a Golden Krust Jamaican beef patty bakery. I've never been to a freestanding one of those, though I've often admired the one visible from the train on the New Haven Line of Metronorth as you pass through the Bronx. To burn off those calories, 12 minutes away is Rockefeller State Park, built on land which must have been an old estate of the oil scions. We enjoyed a stroll on "David's Walk." Many miles of trails back up in there. Yesterday evening Mary and I checked out the trails at Graham Hill Park in Pleasantville.
Not so very far away, half an hour or so, is the Pound Ridge Preserve, where I remember going in the 90s with Story, back before we had kids. Maybe we'll go back there next time we're nearby. And then get some beef patties.
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