The next to last bus for Greenport leaves at seven o'clock on Friday evening from the corner of Forty-Sixth and Third Avenue. If you're lucky (and I was lucky), in a little under two hours and with few stops or much traffic on the Long Island Expressway, it drops you at the Greenport Train Station where you can buy a two dollar token from a machine to walk onto the ferry. The ferry fits two rows of about five cars with room for passengers along the rails and takes about ten minutes to cross over to Shelter Island. And so, with one small rolling suitcase and very little hassle, I arrived for the first time to Shelter Island on the Friday before the Fourth of July.