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Trip 46 — Long Island Walk

4 to 23 November 2025

The second-longest island in the project, New York's Long Island is the finale of the Abecedarian Walks project, my endeavor to walk around islands whose names begin with each of the letters of the alphabet.

I became engaged to Liz three days before starting the walk. Though I was never much more than a train ride away, somehow the distance seemed as great as between New York and Niue.

Each "day" below corresponds to a walking day. Occasionally I took a day off from walking, and experiences from those days are incorporated into the previous or the following walking day's account.

In addition to these verbal accounts are musings, photos, and videos on Instagram, Bluesky, and Twitter.

Prologue
Day 1 Queensbridge Park to Great Neck
Day 2 Great Neck to Locust Valley
Day 3 Locust Valley to Centerport
Day 4 Centerport to Stony Brook
Day 5 Stony Brook to Wading River
Day 6 Wading River to Greenport
Day 7 Around Orient Point and to Jamesport
Day 8 Jamesport to Southampton
Day 9 Southampton to Sag Harbor
Day 10 Sag Harbor to Montauk
Day 11 Around Montauk Point
Day 12 Montauk to Bridgehampton
Day 13 Bridgehampton to Center Moriches
Day 14 Center Moriches to Sayville
Day 15 Sayville to Merrick
Day 16 Merrick to Far Rockaway
Day 17 Far Rockaway to Coney Island
Day 18 Coney Island to Queensbridge Park