For the immersive experience: place your spinning bike in the kitchen, bake 6 pies one-at-a-timeWhat a great night we had! Kristy, Travis, and Linden have an amazing thing in their house. Central air. So we spent a gloriously pleasant night, playing games, mowing the driveway, hanging out, waiting for a corpse flower to bloom. You know, the things you do. And we went to bed cool as cucumbers for a nice deep sleep before starting our ride. I don’t know about my travel companions, but I completely forgot that heat is a thing.
Until I stepped outside Still, it didn’t seem that bad at 8AM, but by the time we got to the trail, my thermometer was registering 90 degrees. But what can you do? We pushed on for 60 miles and the only shade has been bridges over the canal and the temperature doesn’t really change under them. I should stop whining. The shade under a bridge is way better than fixing my two flats of the day in the full sun. (Pro tip: never ask a touring cyclist how many flats they’ve had) we really did have a lovely day. We saw a modern lock operating next to a restored original style lock with boats going through each. We’ve met some nice people, shared some beers, learned some history, got exercise, had fun, and biked our butts off (not literally, don’t worry) And we sweated during all of it.
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New tour, New websitethe bags are all packed and we’re ready to head out. tomorrow Mo, my dad, and myself are heading up to Buffalo to start out along the Erie Canal towpath. Now that the essentials like hammocks and unicorn socks and ramen noodles that won’t get eaten are packed up, it’s time to dust off the twotiredbike twitter and blog.
I checked out out the old Wordpress site twotiredbike.wordpress.com where my old stories sit around. It’s illegible on a phone, and Wordpress just generally sucks, so here we are. At least I’m not linking to my live journal I suppose. So so follow along as we bike into the distant past, before even MySpace on the historic Erie Canal. |