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…

The dew that had put a slick coating on all of our gear as we went to bed, had apparently been scared off by the dark, and everything was completely dry in the morning. We’ll take it! My directions leaving the park had us heading a bit inland on NY-5, a New York State Bike Read more…

We’re usually some of the earlier people out of the campground in the morning, but by the time we woke up today, all the MS charity riders had silently packed up and disappeared. They had 97 miles to go today, a distance I used to do somewhat regularly (even when loaded, unlike them), but one Read more…