After a really nice evening in Kingston, we got another early start on Saturday morning, around 6:45. We had a 95 mile day ahead of us, to Elmsford, a little town in Westchester County and close to Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. I'd declared last year that we would not be doing anymore long days like … Continue reading Day 9: Kingston to Elmsford
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Day 8: Albany to Kingston
We woke early on Friday, knowing we had a 75 mile day down to Kingston. It was strange to pack up and leave without Cindy and Paul, but they were sleeping in and then planning to walk about Albany as they got ready for a 7:00 pm train departure back to St. Paul. So it … Continue reading Day 8: Albany to Kingston
Day 5: Syracuse to Utica
While biking into and out of big, unfamiliar cities can be challenging, I sometimes feel like it might be easier to ride into a city than to drive in. Chicago is a good example - I’ve ridden south from Kenosha into the northern suburbs and then along the lakeshore and right into downtown and it … Continue reading Day 5: Syracuse to Utica
Day 2 and 3: Medina to Palmyra to Waterloo – A flat, a fall, and a bike failure…and it was still terrific
So day two of our Empire State Trail trip started at the Bunkhaus Hostel where we did actually sleep in bunks, and it was in a great location, about half a mile from the canal bike path and a block from Main Street. We got up and made coffee and carried our bikes into the … Continue reading Day 2 and 3: Medina to Palmyra to Waterloo – A flat, a fall, and a bike failure…and it was still terrific
Transitions and Confluences: Six remarkable weeks, and Iowa
This will be a different kind of post, inspired not entirely by bike adventures but by our life generally since we returned from the DC trip. Sometimes, confluences are the coming together of a lot of life experiences, and in our case, these have come quickly in the last six weeks. I do guarantee some … Continue reading Transitions and Confluences: Six remarkable weeks, and Iowa
Day Twenty One: Harpers Ferry to Washington, D.C.: End of the C&O canal, and the best day
So Dan may have glossed over the fact that our hotel in Harpers Ferry was outside of town on the highway...and getting there was a several mile uphill ride with water cascading down a culvert on a slanted shoulder with trucks going 75 mph just inches away. But anyway. We got up early and set … Continue reading Day Twenty One: Harpers Ferry to Washington, D.C.: End of the C&O canal, and the best day
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