u/IArgead

I am new to cycling long distance, and hunger for escape from my Long Island shackles, so I may ambush my girlfriend across the Sound without the use of a car. However, the accursed Throgs Neck, which I pay for the 'privilege' to suffer generally upon my visitation, has no lanes for anything but infernal machines of the Devil and extremely inconveniently timed construction.

Is there a way to escape Long Island without crossing through what we in this wretched place refer to simply as The City, despite it only being one part of such? Or am I doomed to never make such a trip without significant inconvenience?

Came back from a three-day trip to find one of my males (named Creep) curled up in an 'I'm very dead' pose on his back. Wouldn't move at all, freaked me out... until I tried my usual strategy when they do this, which is flipping them onto their fronts (sometimes difficult) and VERY LIGHTLY pressing on his back repeatedly. Eventually he just got up and walked away like nothing had happened.

I have no idea if this works for all beetles, but it works for all five of mine, so give it a whirl if for whatever reason they refuse to stop pretending to be dead!