3488 miles. 120,000 feet of ascent. 229 hours of riding. 15 states. 4 time zones. As I left Chad at the hotel yesterday he said, “This was amazing.” He’s right. It got me choked up for the only time on the ride. I had to explain to my driver that I was actually really happy.…

Today was 91 miles and two new states. The careful observer will notice from the shadows that I’m facing east in the New Hampshire picture and west in the Massachusetts picture. New Hampshire didn’t bother with a sign at the Vermont state line (where they’re building a new bridge) so both of these pictures were…

Vermont, state #13 of 15, is beautiful this time of year. People visit and think it would be nice to move here, only to wake up 6 months later under 4 feet of snow and wonder what went wrong. Today was great, with perfect weather and our last major climb of the trip. Then as…

We rode 102 miles along the Mohawk River today, past rolling fields and struggling towns. The weather remained ideal and the miles rolled by fast. Chad and I ate lunch at a sidewalk bar in Scotia, just outside of Schenectady and had dinner at a Moroccan restaurant in Troy. It was my first taste of…

Another day of perfect weather for a short 58 mile ride to Utica, New York. Our SAG was at Circle K. Nothing terribly strange was afoot, but I’m running out of time to use that title. Yesterday was a fine ride along the Erie Canal. We visited the small Erie canal museum and a restored…

Today was a great ride through beautiful countryside in perfect weather. We had milkshakes at our SAG and Chad and I had a very nice large late lunch together. We rode 86 miles past the Finger Lakes and the Erie Canal. Spending Fathers’ Day with my son was nearly perfect: the only thing which would…

Beautiful spring weather returned today as we rode 80 miles from Buffalo to Victor, New York, a suburb of Rochester. It was warm but not hot, sunny, and not humid. We had a tailwind most of the way. Flat tires also made a comeback, with 2 for me today. We’ve passed 3000 miles and have…

The last week of the trip is usually an easy cruise through flat upstate New York in the early summer. Today was 92 miles along Lake Erie with strawberry shortcake at the first SAG and ice cream at the second. Because of the Lake Effect, however, the weather on the eastern edge of Lake Erie…

Today was a rest day, so following Mick Jagger’s advice we went for another bike ride, this one a lovely 25 mile cruise through Presque Isle State Park. We saw Misery Bay, so named because of the suffering of the sailors stuck there during the winter of the War of 1812. There are several warships…