Returning from our Pennsylvania weekend, we had one last week staying in Skaneateles. With Rett’s biking “yips” on the mend, we finally had an opportunity to do our traditional ride around Skaneateles Lake. It’s a beautiful 42-mile ride, filled with challenging hills, but the power of the lake got Rett’s confidence back at least close… Read more…

Ken had gifted us free use of his van for around-town trips, but then was generous enough to offer us the opportunity to take it to see my friend Dan for a couple nights, a three-hour drive south in Pennsylvania. Dan had made a few trips up to Skaneateles over the years to meet us… Read more…

We had two weeks of “vacation” staying with my parents in Illinois, then went back to “work” for twenty days riding from Illinois to New York, and now will have another few weeks of “vacation” staying with Rett’s dad. Summer is nice, isn’t it? First, let’s see how our “duplicate tour” in 2022 compared statistically… Read more…

Sometimes the last steps are the hardest. That’s especially true if the last steps (of this phase) take you up to Skaneateles. In 2014, coming from the northwest off the Erie Canal Trail, we rode 51 miles, and three times our average daily climbing up to that point, and rode for nearly six hours. Today’s… Read more…

Breakfast came up via 4-wheeler at 7am, with our hosts accommodating us a bit earlier than normal so we could get on the road for a longer day. It was also nice to not have to wash dishes and pack up the tent, which isn’t really an unusual situation for us (like any time we… Read more…

We took NY-5 east from Clarence. As a state highway, it was busier than country farm roads (or the Erie Canal Trail), but it had good shoulders the whole way and got us efficiently eastward. It connected us through a string of small towns filled with grand old houses, and none of them for sale.… Read more…