Gail and I decided on a local trip by bike this summer, one
that would take us along Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence Seaway and 1000
Islands, and then turn south and pass through the High Peaks of the Adirondacks
where we could do some hiking too. On
paper, or the google map I created, it was 420 miles, though that didn’t figure
in side trips, getting lost and spontaneous changes to the itinerary. We ended up riding 500 miles.
Ha ha, bet you thought I meant bicycles when I wrote
“bike.” The quad was a great way to go.
As we’ve done before, we started by taking a TCAT bus out of
Ithaca to make the first day a little shorter with less climbing. The bus was almost a half hour late due to a
flat tire which we took as a bad omen, but we didn’t get any flats on the whole
trip. We had a great time, saw some
really interesting sites, saw old friends and made new ones. Each of us had a close call with a collision,
Gail almost collided with a lawnmower and I had a van turn right when I was
going straight. No harm ensued and we
made it home happy and enriched by the experience once again.
No comments:
Post a Comment