Category: New York

When we left the mainland for New Zealand eight months ago, we had no idea what our next destination would be. Australia? Southeast Asia? Japan? We figured we’d just let the winds of chance point us. A few months ago,when we got news that a reunion of my mom’s side of the family on the…

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…

38.5 mi / 10.1 mph / 1349 ft. climbingHome: Camp Benjamin We awoke after a quiet night to see the Erie Canal’s Lock 21 in use a couple times! The first was so silent and fast that the boat had been raised nearly the full 26 feet by the rising water before I even realized…