Category: New York

Weeks 3-4 Our previous visit to Skaneateles was for only 8 days, so we had decided that it wouldn’t be worth lugging the bikes back and forth with us from Chicago on Amtrak (though we somewhat regretted that choice). On our two visits before that, we had just completed an intensive phase of bike riding,…

Weeks 1-2 Last year’s visit to Rett’s Dad’s house was in the fall, so it was nice to switch it back to a summertime visit, and be able to partake in some of the classic bounty of the garden, including broccoli, potatoes, and new this year: blueberries! Unfortunately an asshole raccoon began raiding the corn…

Today would complete our crossing of the Adirondack Mountains, and return us nearly to sea-level. But even when going “downhill”, we still managed to do more climbing than any day since we left Chicago, and more than our days where we actually climbed up into the Adirondacks! Morning revealed that the incessant stake-hammering from our…

Now fully on top of the Adirondack plateau, we had a relatively flat morning of cool forest riding, and that inspired Rett to put the pedal(s) down and fly through the first fifteen miles without a stop before 90 minutes had passed. A tough 400 foot climb brought and end to the flattish, and took…

Temperature at our wakeup was 48 deg F, I guess that’s the way of noting that we’re up in the mountains! It was another quiet and peaceful night; we’re getting spoiled here, this was the second night in a row where we were “camping”, but had the whole place to ourselves. Ash and Benjamin met…