The morning after our dinner at Roots we had breakfast, let Juno run around for a while and then, since my friends had offered to drive me back home, we headed off back towards the lower Hudson valley where I live.

On the way we stopped at Chuang Yen monastery (above), near Putnam Valley where I used to have a house.

Finally, we reached Westchester County where I now live. After a quick drive around (where, among other places we took a quick look at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture), we went to dinner at one of my favorite riverside restaurants: The Boathouse in Ossining, NY.