Day 2, Connecticut: Even worse hills than the day before AND an earthquake!? OK, we didn't feel it. AND, to clear up my family rumors, it did NOT make me fall off my bike, nor was it caused by me falling off my bike... LMAO.
Day 3, Crossed into New York State: Much better ride and we had a great lakeside campground all to ourselves. Jeff suffered a broken spoke, but the bike repair shop guy gave us a free part and Jeff had it fixed and true in about an hour. The ride was getting easier and things were looking up!
Day 4, New York: Hurricane Irene is comiiiiiiiiiing! Heavy rains forced us inside after 15 miles of great riding. More heavy rains, 65-100 MPH expected winds and a big 'ol hurricane is coming! Yipes! What is mother nature trying to tell us all in the first four days!?!
So, last night we spent a few hours trying to figure out how to bike from here to Albany and over towards Buffalo without getting schwacked by the hurricane. There are a lot of great bike trails up there we were looking forward to checking out, but after considering all of our options we realized we really didn't have many. There just aren't a lot of places to hunker down between here and there if the weather came in sooner than expected or something went awry. Basically we looking at potentially 3 consecutive nights in a hotel waiting out the storm.
The problem with that is... we didn't come out here to sit around in a hotel... we came here to ride!!! So, with much thought and consideration, we've decided to rent a big 'ol van, and drive ourselves up to Rochester, NY to get out of Hurricane Irene's way and get riding! Today we will be driving most of the day, but tomorrow we can hit the streets again to sunny skies without worrying about having to duck and cover every time a cloud rolls in. Hope everyone is having a great Friday!!!
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