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This was another pleasant ride. About 6 miles out, I caught a 1½" drywall screw in my back tire. Buried itself up to the end of the threads. That was kind of a bummer. Later in the day, Andy got a flat tire while going 30 mph down a hill. That wasn't too cool either. But most of the day, we rode with Sandy and Julie. Picture two guys on the prowl, chasing a couple of fast women. Julie's the one I raced a few days ago, and Sandy stays right on her tail. They usually like to "smell the flowers, not the sweat," but they can really fly when they want to. We were in Erie Canal country today. We went ever so slightly off route to follow the bike path along the canal for about 5 miles. Very pretty. The Roadside Attraction of the day was the "world's smallest church," which seats 2, and is on a platform in the middle of a pond. Little Falls seems like a pleasant enough little town, but it's not anywhere I've heard of before, and I'm from the next state over. The nearest town I've heard of is Utica, 20 miles back up the road. The hotel is right next to an active railroad bed, and just beyond that is the Mohawk River. Can't tell you much more about it. I'm going to be going off route after tomorrow, to visit my parents in Northampton, MA (waypoint 50A on the weekly map), so I've been spending a lot of time with the mapping program to get a proper route both from Albany to Northampton, and back to the regular route in Lowell the next day. |
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