Hey! I've been trying to think of "that one song about the Erie Canal" for like four days since we started riding along it and FINALLY I'm at a computer that can tell me! :0) If you want to be nostalgic about your childhood and remember it too, you can go to this link: http://www.eriecanalvillage.net/pages/song.html (beware, it starts to play INSTANTLY... even when you are in a hotel lobby with all kinds of people around you).
Soooo, what have we been up to? Our first day after we fled to get out of Irene's way, we still had a pretty windy day, but all was made up for when we passed a fruit stand with probably the most delicious peaches and homemade pies EVER. We rode a lot of the bike trail that goes along the Erie Canal - some of it amazing and paved and some of it sandy and slooooow... well, at least us pedaling are slow. The one thing that stood out above anything else in upstate New York were the ridiculously huge and perfectly manicured lawns. Seriously, you would think there's some kind of law that forbids you to have grass over 2" tall - even the ditches and grass in the most remote parts along the canal were perfectly manicured. I think it actually made everything prettier :0). Anyways, the next day we passed our first of many "Horse and Buggy ahead" type signs, and actually saw a guy pulling one into a barn. Since then we've passed a few and they are always nice and smile and wave to me :0). We've gone through some pretty rural towns and a lot of countryside with orchards, vineyards, and a few Dairy Farms (p-u!). One day Jeff slowed down and commented how creepy and quiet the road we were on was -- funny I was thinking how much it reminded me of home!
We've officially camped on Lake Ontario once and Lake Erie a few times now - a couple days ago we got to check out Canada from across the bay near Buffalo, NY (someone forgot her passport, so we just got to see it out from a distance.) Trying to get in/out of Buffalo, we came around a corner and a lady frantically ran up to us asking for help - FRANTICALLY. Guess she ran out of gas in the middle of the intersection, so Jeff jumped into action and pushed her across into a parking lot -- I'm sure the biking wasn't enough of a workout for him -- he probably needed it to help him out with his leg muscles... lol.
We are currently in Erie, PA and should be in Ohio by tomorrow!!!
- Jeff got chased by a miniature pincher... haha... better than than a doberman one! - Some little kid yelled at me to catch up to Jeff and a few others just yelled in general. Whats up with people honking at us? Is that a cyclist thing because they always wave? A construction worker yelled at me today "where you headed??" I said "west!" He laughed and said "that works!" Maybe I'm being a little to vague? haha...
- Seen 5 different people cycling cross-country (in the other direction of course) - every one of them had the same panniers (rear bags) as us.
- Michelle keeps bugging me to find a geocache... every time I think about it they are in the other direction. Hmm... maybe I should plan ahead?
- Only've seen 2 creepy lurkers so far, so that's nice. We instantly went in another direction.
OK thats it for now! Hope to blog more often so no more brain dumps... but you know how that goes!!!
~Styx & Bones
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