Category: USA
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Clarence, NY to Rush, NY
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.…
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Irving, NY to Clarence, NY
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…
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Portland, NY to Irving, NY
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…
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Lake City, PA to Portland, NY
Today we crossed through Erie, Pennsylvania, another of the decaying rust-belt cities cinched around the belly of Lake Erie. Except, like Cleveland, or many of the smaller towns we’ve passed through, it no longer seems to be decaying, and, at least from surface-level appearances, seems to be on the upswing. In 2014, my only memory…
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North Perry, OH to Lake City, PA
We ate breakfast, packed up camp and then rolled our bikes the quarter mile over to the park bathroom to do our morning routines, including teeth brushing, contact cleaning, etc. Loitering about with our wheeled vehicles heavily laden with overstuffed bags, we felt somewhat more like the standard definition of “homeless people”, because this was…